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Imantodes
Sign in to saveImantodes is a genus of colubrid snakes commonly referred to as blunt-headed vine snakes or blunt-headed tree snakes. The genus consists of seven species that are native to Mexico, Central America, and the northern part of South America.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassSquamata
- FamilyColubridae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 75
- With media
- 9
- Family
- Colubridae
- Collections
- UTA, CUMV, MVZ, MPEG, MSB, MSUM
- Recorded in
- Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Brasil
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- Parent taxon
- Dipsadinae
- Image
- Flickr - ggallice - Bluntheaded tree snake.jpg
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Imantodes is a genus of colubrid snakes commonly referred to as blunt-headed vine snakes or blunt-headed tree snakes. The genus consists of seven species that are native to Mexico, Central America, and the northern part of South America.
==Species== There are currently eight recognized species: Imantodes cenchoa – neotropical blunt-headed treesnake, blunthead treesnake, fiddle-string snake Imantodes chocoensis – Chocoan blunt-headed vine snake Imantodes gemmistratus – Central American tree snake Imantodes guane Imantodes inornatus - western tree snake Imantodes lentiferus - Amazon Basin tree snake Imantodes phantasma - phantasma tree snake Imantodes tenuissimus – Yucatán blunthead snake Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Imantodes.
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