Oxybelis rutherfordi Jadin, Blair, Orlofske, Jowers, Rivas, Vitt, Ray, Smith & Murphy, 2020

Rivas, Gilson A., Sibira, Luis E. & Barros, Tito R., 2022, Catalogue of Type Specimens in the amphibians and reptiles collection of the Museo de Biología, Universidad del Zulia (MBLUZ), Maracaibo, Venezuela, Anartia (Oxford, England) 35, pp. 14-21 : 19-20

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7951605

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/CD0E87DA-9B09-0B60-9066-E87BFECEFED2

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Oxybelis rutherfordi Jadin, Blair, Orlofske, Jowers, Rivas, Vitt, Ray, Smith & Murphy, 2020
status

 

Oxybelis rutherfordi Jadin, Blair, Orlofske, Jowers, Rivas, Vitt, Ray, Smith & Murphy, 2020 View in CoL .

Paratype: MBLUZ 1268 [adult], between San Francisco de Macanao and Cerro Los Cedros, Isla de Margarita, [estado] Nueva Esparta, Venezuela (11° 01’ 34” N, 64° 17’ 30” W) by Gilson Rivas, Eusebio Millán, Ángel Fernández, and Reina Gonto on 10 October 2013 GoogleMaps .

Remarks: currently a valid species, probably with a wider distribution in northern Venezuela and East of the Andes ( Jadin et al. 2020). MBLUZ 1268 is in good condition of preservation.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Squamata

Family

Colubridae

Genus

Oxybelis

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