Dryophylax hypoconia

Dryophylax hypoconia is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to South America.

Dryophylax hypoconia
Dryophylax hypoconia
in Lençóis Maranhenses National Park
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Dryophylax
Species:
D. hypoconia
Binomial name
Dryophylax hypoconia
(Cope, 1860)
Synonyms[2]
  • Tachymenis hypoconia
    Cope, 1860
  • Thamnodynastes nattereri
    Boulenger, 1896 (part)
  • Dryophylax pallidus strigilis
    — Serié, 1936
  • Thamnodynastes strigilis
    — J. Peters & Orejas-Miranda, 1970 (part)
  • Thamnodynastes hypoconia
    — Cei, Bergna & Álvarez, 1992

Geographic range

D. hypoconia is found in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.[2]

References
  1. Arzamendia, V.; Fitzgerald, L.; Giraudo, A.; Montero, R. & Williams, J. (2019). "Thamnodynastes hypoconia". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T15183091A15183105.
  2. Species Dryophylax hypoconia at The Reptile Database

Further reading
  • Cope ED (1860). "Catalogue of the Colubridæ in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, with notes and descriptions of new species. Part 2". Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 12: 241–266. (Tachymenis hypoconia, new species, pp. 247–248).


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