Emmochliophis fugleri Fritts & Smith, 1969

Pyron, R. Alexander, Guayasamin, Juan M., Penafiel, Nicolas, Bustamante, Lucas & Arteaga, Alejandro, 2015, Systematics of Nothopsini (Serpentes, Dipsadidae), with a new species of Synophis from the Pacific Andean slopes of southwestern Ecuador, ZooKeys 541, pp. 109-147 : 119

Taxon classification Animalia Squamata Colubridae

Emmochliophis fugleri Fritts & Smith, 1969

Holotype.

UIMNH 78795, 4 km. E Río Baba bridge, 24 km. S Santo Domingo de los Colorados, Pichincha, Ecuador, ~600 m.

Etymology.

After Dr. Charles Fugler, who collected the holotype.

Description.

A terrestrial snake from the Pacific Andean slopes of NW Ecuador, diagnosable by 16 maxillary teeth, 8 infralabials, 8 supralabials, 2 postoculars, internasals in contact, loreal absent, nuchal collar absent, 140 ventrals, 97 subcaudals, dorsal scales in 19 rows without reduction, strong keels, and zygapophyses expanded laterally forming rod–and–bar assembly. Type locality is surrounded by banana plantations. Little else is known about the habits or habitat of the species.

Notes.

Known only from the type specimen, a male, collected by C. Fugler in February 1966.