Leptodeira

Leptodeira

Taxobox
name = "Leptodeira"


image_width = 300px
image_caption = Northern cat-eye snake (Leptodeira septentrionalis), in Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
subordo = Serpentes
familia = Colubridae
subfamilia = Xenodontinae
genus = "Leptodeira"
genus_authority = Fitzinger, 1843

"Leptodeira" is a genus of colubrid snakes commonly referred to as cat-eyed snakes. The genus consists of 9 species that are native to primarily Mexico and Central America, but range as far north as the United States into the southern tip of the state of Texas, and as far south as South America, to Argentina.

Species

*Banded Cat-eyed Snake, "Leptodeira annulata"
**"Leptodeira annulata annulata" (Linnaeus, 1758)
**"Leptodeira annulata ashmeadii" (Hallowell, 1845)
**"Leptodeira annulata maculata" (Hallowell, 1845)
**"Leptodeira annulata cussiliris" (Duellman, 1958)
**"Leptodeira annulata pulchriceps" (Duellman, 1958)
**"Leptodeira annulata rhombifera" (Günther, 1872)
*Baker's Cat-eyed Snake, "Leptodeira bakeri" (Ruthven, 1936)
*Rainforest Cat-eyed Snake, "Leptodeira frenata"
**"Leptodeira frenata frenata" (Cope, 1886)
**"Leptodeira frenata malleisi" (Dunn & Stuart, 1935)
**"Leptodeira frenata yucatanensis" (Cope, 1887)
*Southwestern Cat-eyed Snake, "Leptodeira maculata" (Hallowell, 1861)
*Black-banded Cat-eyed Snake, "Leptodeira nigrofasciata" (Günther, 1868)
*Western Cat-eyed Snake, "Leptodeira punctata" (Peters, 1866)
*Costa Rican Cat-eyed Snake, "Leptodeira rubricata" (Cope, 1893)
*Northern Cat-eyed Snake, "Leptodeira septentrionalis"
**"Leptodeira septentrionalis ornata" (Bocourt, 1884)
**"Leptodeira septentrionalis polysticta"
**"Leptodeira septentrionalis septentrionalis" (Kennicott, 1859)
*Splendid Cat-eyed Snake, "Leptodeira splendida"
**"Leptodeira splendida bressoni" (Taylor, 1938)
**"Leptodeira splendida ephippiata" (Smith & Tanner), 1944)
**"Leptodeira splendida splendida" (Günther, 1895)

References

*EMBL genus|genus=Leptodeira


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