''Erythrolamprus fraseri'' is a
species
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of
snake
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in the
family
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Colubridae
Colubridae (, commonly known as colubrids , from , 'snake') is a family of snakes. With 249 genera, it is the largest snake family. The earliest fossil species of the family date back to the Late Eocene epoch, with earlier origins suspected. C ...
. The species is native to northwestern
South America
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.
Etymology
The
specific name, ''fraseri'', is in honor of British zoologist
Louis Fraser Louis Fraser (1810 – 1866) was a British Zoology, zoologist and collector. In his early years, Fraser was curator of the Museum of the Zoological Society of London.
Little is known about Fraser's early life. He was born in 1810 and married Mary A ...
.
Geographic range
''E. fraseri'' is found in western
Ecuador
Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain ...
and in
Huancabamba Province,
Peru
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.
Description
The
holotype
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of ''E. fraseri'', an adult female, has a
snout-vent length (SVL) of , plus a tail length of .
[ Boulenger GA (1894)]
Reproduction
''E. fraseri'' is
oviparous
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.
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References
Further reading
* Boulenger GA (1894). ''Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ.'' London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor & Francis, printers). xi + 382 pp. + Plates I–XX. (''Liophis fraseri'', new species, p. 131 + Plate VI, figure 2).
* Dixon JR (1983). "Systematics of the Latin American Snake ''Liophis epinephelus'' ic(Serpentes: Colubridae)". pp. 132–149. ''In'': Rhodin AGJ, Miyata K (editors) (1983). ''Advances in Herpetology and Evolutionary Biology: Essays in Honor of Ernest E. Williams''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. xix + 725 ("''Liophis epinephelus'' ic''fraseri'', new taxonomic status, p.138).
* Torres-Carvajal O, Hinojosa KC (2020). "Hidden diversity in two widespread snake species (Serpentes: Xenodontini: ''Erythrolamprus'') from South America". ''Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution'' 146: 196772. (''Erythrolamprus fraseri'', new combination).
Erythrolamprus
Reptiles of Ecuador
Reptiles of Peru
Reptiles described in 1894
Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger
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