Dipsas
Dipsas is a genus of nonvenomous New World snakes in the subfamily Dipsadinae of the family Colubridae. The genus Sibynomorphus has been moved here. Species of the genus Dipsas are known as snail-eaters.
Taxonomy
The genus Dipsas includes over 50 distinct species.The following species are recognized as being valid.
- Dipsas albifrons – Sauvage's snail-eater
- Dipsas alternans – Jan's snail-eater
- Dipsas andiana
- Dipsas aparatiritos
- Dipsas articulata – American snail-eater
- Dipsas baliomelas
- Dipsas bicolor – two-colored snail-eater
- Dipsas bobridgelyi – Bob Ridgely's snail-eater
- Dipsas bothropoides
- Dipsas brevifacies – snail-eating thirst snake, short-faced snail-eater
- Dipsas bucephala – neotropical snail-eater
- Dipsas catesbyi – Catesby's snail-eater
- Dipsas chaparensis
- Dipsas cisticeps – neotropical snail-eater
- Dipsas copei
- Dipsas elegans
- Dipsas ellipsifera
- Dipsas gaigeae – Gaige's thirst snail-eater, Gaige's thirst snake, zicatlinán
- Dipsas georgejetti – George Jett's snail-eater
- Dipsas gracilis – graceful snail-eater
- Dipsas incerta – Jan's snail-eater
- Dipsas indica – neotropical snail-eater
- Dipsas jamespetersi Orcés & Almendáriz, 1989
- Dipsas klebbai – Klebba's snail-eate
- Dipsas latifrontalis – broad-fronted snail-eater, Venezuela snail-eater
- Dipsas lavillai Scrocchi, Porto & Rey, 1993
- Dipsas maxillaris – Werner's thirst snake
- Dipsas mikanii
- Dipsas neuwiedi – Neuwied's tree snake
- Dipsas nicholsi
- Dipsas oligozonata Orcés & Almendáriz, 1989
- Dipsas oneilli Rossman & Thomas, 1979 – O'Neill's tree snake
- Dipsas oreas – Ecuador snail-eater
- Dipsas oswaldobaezi – Oswaldo Báez's snail-eater
- Dipsas pakaraima
- Dipsas palmeri – Palmer's snail-eater
- Dipsas pavonina – northern snail-eater
- Dipsas peruana – Peruvian snail-eater, Peru snail-eater
- Dipsas praeornata
- Dipsas pratti – Pratt's snail-eater
- Dipsas sanctijoannis – tropical snail-eater
- Dipsas sazimai
- Dipsas schunkii – Schunk's snail-eater
- Dipsas temporalis – temporal snail-eater
- Dipsas tenuissima – Taylor's snail-eater
- Dipsas trinitatis – Trinidad snail-eater
- Dipsas turgida – Bolivian tree snake
- Dipsas vagrans – Dunn's tree snake
- Dipsas vagus – Jan's tree snake
- Dipsas variegata – variegated snail-eater
- Dipsas ventrimaculata – Boulenger's tree snake
- Dipsas vermiculata – vermiculate snail-eater
- Dipsas viguieri – Bocourt's snail-eater
- Dipsas welborni
- Dipsas williamsi Carillo de Espinoza, 1974 – Williams's tree snake