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Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk).
Latest update: December 31st, 2022.


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








Genus
Drepanoides

Amazon Egg Eater

Amazonas-Eierschlange

Amazonas-ægsnog

1863 Cloelia Jan [not Cloelia Wagler 1830 (Serpentes); not Cloelia Agassiz 1844 (Serpentes); not Cloelia Agassiz 1847 (Insecta)] (type species: Cloelia anomala Jan 1863)
1896 Drepanodon Peracca (type species: Cloelia anomala Jan 1863; not Drepanodon Nesti 1826 (Mammalia))
1928 Drepanoides Dunn [substitute name for Drepanodon Peracca 1896]
1941 Pseudoclelia Rendahl & Vestergren (type species: Pseudoclelia guttata Rendahl & Vestergren 1941; syn. Williams & Wallach 1989)
Contents: 1 species, which is not endemic.
Endemism: 0% 100%
Distribution: As for the single species.

Meristic and other data
of the world's snakes.
Compiled by
V. Wallach
Key to abbreviations


Head drawings of the
genus Drepanoides.
Compiled by
V. Wallach

Drepanoides anomalus

Amazon Egg Eater, Black-collared Snake

Amazonas-Eierschlange

Amazonas-ægsnog

1863 Cloelia anomala Jan
Drepanodon anomalus Peracca 1896
Drepanoides anomalus Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970
1896 Drepanodon astigmaticus Peracca (Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970)
1941 Pseudoclelia guttata Rendahl & Vestergren (Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970)

Distribution: Bolivia, Brazil (Acre, Amapa, Amazonas, Maranhao, Mato Grosso, Para [incl. Marajo Island], Rondonia, Roraima), Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Surinam.