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Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk).
Latest update: August 27th, 2024.


Taxonomy of the family Colubridae
Bibliography of the genus Imantodes
Biodiversity of the family Colubridae








Genus
Imantodes

American Blunt-headed Tree Snakes, Blunt-headed Vine Snakes, Chunk-headed Snakes

Riemennattern

Butsnudede Liansnoge

1853 Imantodes Dumeril (type species: Dipsas weigelii Fitzinger 1826 (Schlegel#))
Contents: 8 species, of which 1 (12.5%) is endemic.
Endemism: 0% 100%
Distribution: Mexico, Central America, South America.
Reported from: Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil (Acre, Alagoas, Amapa, Amazonas, Bahia, Ceara, Espirito Santo, Goias, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Para [incl. Marajo Island], Paraiba, Parana, Pernambuco, Piaui, Rio de Janeiro, Rondonia, Roraima, Santa Catarina, Sao Paulo, Tocantins), Colombia (incl. Gorgona Island), Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras (incl. Islas de la Bahia [Utila]), Mexico (Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Colima, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico State, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit [incl. Islas Marias (Maria Madre)], Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatan, Zacatecas), Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Surinam, Trinidad & Tobago (Tobago, Trinidad), Venezuela.

Imantodes cenchoa

Common Blunt-headed Tree Snake, Brown Blunt-headed Vine Snake

Braune Riemennatter

Brun Liansnog

1758 Coluber Cenchoa Linnaeus
Bungarus cencoatl [lapsus] Oppel 1810
Imantodes cenchoa Duméril 1853
1826 Dipsas weigelii Fitzinger (Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970)
1861 Himantodes leucomelas Cope
Imantodes cenchoa leucomelas Smith 1942
1894 Himantodes anisolepis Cope (Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970)
1894 Himantodes semifasciatus Cope (Myers 1982)
Imantodes cenchoa semifasciatus Smith 1942
1899 Himantodes platycephalus Cope (Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970)

Other common names:
cenchoa: South American Blunt-headed Tree Snake
leucomelas: Honduran Blunt-headed Tree Snake, Cope's Blunt-headed Tree Snake
semifasciatus: Guatemalan Blunt-headed Tree Snake
Distribution: Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil (Acre, Alagoas, Amapa, Amazonas, Bahia, Ceara, Espirito Santo, Goias, Maranhao, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Para [incl. Marajo Island], Paraiba, Parana, Pernambuco, Piaui, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte, Rondonia, Roraima, Santa Catarina, Sao Paulo, Tocantins), Colombia (incl. Gorgona Island), Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras (incl. Islas de la Bahia [Utila]), Mexico (Campeche, Chiapas, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Puebla, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz), Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Surinam, Trinidad & Tobago (Tobago, Trinidad), Venezuela.


Imantodes cenchoa
© Henrik Bringsøe

Imantodes chocoensis

Chocóan Blunt-headed Tree Snake, Chocoan Blunt-headed Vine Snake

Chocó-Riemennatter

Chocó-liansnog

2012 Imantodes chocoensis Torres-Carvajal, Yánez-Muñoz, Quirola, Smith & Almendáriz

Distribution: Colombia, Ecuador.


Imantodes gemmistratus

Central American Blunt-headed Tree Snake, Spotted Blunt-headed Tree Snake

Zentralamerikanische Riemennatter

Centralamerikansk Liansnog

1860 Himantodes gemmistratus Cope
Imantodes gemmistratus Smith 1942
1871 Himantodes cenchoa elegans Jan (Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970)
1880 Dipsas cenchoa reticulata Müller (Liner 2007)
Imantodes gemmistratus reticulatus Liner 2007
1886 Leptognathus stratissima Cope (Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970)
1887 Dipsas gemmistrata latistrata Cope
Sibon gemmistratum latistratum Herrera 1904
Imantodes latistratus Smith 1942
Imantodes gemmistratus latistratus Zweifel 1959
1895 Dipsas gracillima Günther
Himantodes gracillimus Boulenger 1896
Imantodes gracillimus Smith 1942
Imantodes gemmistratus gracillimus Zweifel 1959
1895 Dipsas splendida Günther
Imantodes splendidus Schmidt & Andrews 1936
Imantodes gemmistratus splendidus Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970
1899 Himantodes hemigenius Cope (Wallach, Williams & Boundy 2014)
1942 Imantodes luciodorsus Oliver
Imantodes splendidus luciodorsus Smith 1942
Imantodes gemmistratus luciodorsus Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970
1942 Imantodes splendidus oliveri Smith 1942
Imantodes gemmistratus oliveri Peters 1954

Other common names:
gemmistratus: Greater Blunt-headed Tree Snake
gracillimus: Slender Blunt-headed Tree Snake
latistratus: Red Blunt-headed Tree Snake
luciodorsus: Common Blunt-headed Tree Snake
reticulatus: Reticulated Blunt-headed Tree Snake
splendidus: Splendid Blunt-headed Tree Snake
Remarks: Ponce-Campos & Huerta-Ortega (1998) treated gracillimus as a separate species.
Distribution: Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico (Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Colima, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico State, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit [incl. Islas Marias (Maria Madre)], Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatan, Zacatecas), Nicaragua, Panama.


Imantodes guane

Colombian Blunt-headed Tree Snake

Kolumbianische Riemennatter

Colombiansk Liansnog

2015 Imantodes guane Missassi & Prudente

Distribution: Colombia.


Imantodes inornatus

Yellow Blunt-headed Tree Snake, Yellow Blunt-headed Vine Snake

Gelbe Riemennatter

Gul Liansnog

1896 Himantodes inornatus Boulenger
Imantodes inornatus Taylor 1951

Distribution: Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama.


Imantodes lentiferus

Amazon Blunt-headed Tree Snake

Nördliche Amazonas-Riemennatter

Nordlig Amazonas-liansnog

1894 Himantodes lentiferus Cope
Imantodes lentiferus Amaral 1929

Distribution: Bolivia, Brazil (Acre, Amapa, Amazonas, Mato Grosso, Para, Rondonia), Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Surinam, Venezuela.


Imantodes phantasma

Panamanian Blunt-headed Tree Snake

Panamaische Riemennatter

Panamansk Liansnog

1982 Imantodes phantasma Myers

Distribution: Colombia, Panama.


Imantodes tenuissimus

Yucatan Blunt-headed Tree Snake

Yucatan-Riemennatter

Yucatan-liansnog

1866 Himantodes tenuissimus Cope
Imantodes tenuissimus Hartweg & Oliver 1940

Distribution: Belize, Mexico (Campeche, Quintana Roo, Yucatan).