Urotheca myersi

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Colubroidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Serpentes Cladus: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Colubroidea

Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Dipsadinae
Genus: Urotheca
Species: Urotheca myersi

Urotheca myersi Savage & Lahanas, 1989: 892

Holotype: LACM 137604 (original number CRE 1036), juvenile ♂, collected by J. Hernandez Camacho on 11 June 1961.
Type locality: “Cordillera de Talamanca, near Finca de Jardin (2255 m), approx. 9.6 km south by road of Villa Mills, just south of Division, on the Carretera Interamericana (Ruta 2), Canton Perez Zeledon, Provincia de San Jose, Costa Rica”.

Savage, J.M. & Lahanas, P.N. 1989. A New Species of Colubrid Snake (Genus Urotheca) from the Cordillera de Talamanca of Costa Rica. Copeia 1989(4): 892–896. DOI: 10.2307/1445974 Reference page.

Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, P., Reyes, R., Kudera, F. & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Urotheca myersi. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 16 November 2019.
Chaves, G., Porras, L.W., Solórzano, A. & Acosta Chaves, V. 2014. IUCN: Urotheca myersi (Data Deficient). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T203620A2769172. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T203620A2769172.en. Accessed on 24 September 2022.

English: Myers' Ground Snake

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