Leptodeira is a genus of colubrid snakes commonly referred to as cat-eyed snakes. The genus consists of 18 species that are native to primarily Mexico and Central America, but range as far north as the Rio Grande Valley region of Texas in United States and as far south as Argentina in South America.

Leptodeira
Northern cat-eyed snake (Leptodeira septentrionalis), in Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Subfamily: Dipsadinae
Genus: Leptodeira
Fitzinger, 1843
Species

18, see text

Synonyms
  • Megalops Hallowell 1860 [1861]
  • Leptodira Cope 1866
  • Anoplophallus Cope 1893

Species and subspecies

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The following species and subspecies are recognized as being valid.[1][2]

Nota bene: In the above list, a binomial authority or trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species or subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Leptodeira.

References

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  1. ^ Genus Leptodeira at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  2. ^ Torres-Carvajal, Omar; Sánchez-Nivicela, Juan C.; Posse, Valentina; Celi, Elvis; Koch, Claudia (2020-12-16). "A new species of cat-eyed snake (Serpentes: Dipsadinae: Leptodeirini) from the Andes of southern Ecuador". Zootaxa. 4895 (3): 357–380. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4895.3.3. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 33756892. S2CID 230590828.
  3. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Leptodeira bakeri, p. 15).
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Further reading

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  • Fitzinger L (1843). Systema Reptilium, Fasciculus Primus, Amblyglossae. Vienna: Braumüller & Seidel. 106 pp. + indices. (Leptodeira, new genus, p. 27). (in Latin).
  • Freiberg M (1982). Snakes of South America. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. ISBN 0-87666-912-7. (Genus Leptodeira, pp. 75, 100–101, 133 + photograph on p. 55).