Erythrolamprus jaegeri

Jaeger's ground snake
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Subfamily:	Dipsadinae
Genus:	Erythrolamprus
Species:	E. jaegeri
Binomial name
	Erythrolamprus jaegeri; (Günther, 1858)
Synonyms
	Coronella jaegeri ; Günther, 1858; Liophis jaegeri ; — Freiberg, 1982; Erthrolamprus jaegeri ; — Forlani et al., 2010;

Erythrolamprus jaegeri, commonly known as Jaeger's ground snake, is a species of snake in the subfamily Dipsadinae of the family Colubridae. The species is native to South America. There are two recognized subspecies.^[2]

Etymology

The specific name, jaegeri, is in honor of German paleontologist Georg Friedrich Jäger.^[3]

Geographic range

E. jaegeri is found in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.^[2]

Habitat

E. jaegeri is found in a variety of habitats, including forest, shrubland, grassland, and freshwater wetlands, at altitudes from near sea level to 1,300 m (4,300 ft).^[1]

Classification

Erythrolamprus jaegeri belongs to the genus Erythrolamprus, which contains over 50 species. The genus Erythrolamprus belongs to the subfamily Dipsadinae, which is sometimes referred to as the family Dipsadidae. The relationships of Erythrolamprus species located in northern South America can be shown in the cladogram below, based on molecular DNA analysis:^[4]

E. poecilogyrus (paraphyletic)

	E. ceii

	E. poecilogyrus (paraphyletic)

E. miliaris

E. typhlus (Brazil) (paraphyletic)

E. reginae (paraphyletic)

	E. reginae (paraphyletic)

	E. zweifeli

E. breviceps

E. epinephalus (Peru) (paraphyletic)

	E. epinephalus (Costa Rica) (paraphyletic)

	E. pseudoreginae

E. melanotus

E. atraventer

	Erythrolamprus jaegeri

	E. almadensis

	E. juliae

	E. cursor

E. typhlus (French Guiana) (paraphyletic)

E. cobella

	E. aesculapii (Brazil) (paraphyletic)

	E. ocellatus

E. aesculapii (French Guiana & Guyana) (paraphyletic)

	E. bizona

	E. mimus

Reproduction

E. jaegeri is oviparous.^[2]

Subspecies

Two subspecies are recognized as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies.^[2]

Erythrolamprus jaegeri coralliventris (Boulenger, 1894)
Erythrolamprus jaegeri jaegeri (Günther, 1858)

Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Erythrolamprus.

References

^ ^a ^b Williams J, Giraudo A, Arzamendia V, Fitzgerald L, Scrocchi G (2019). "Erythrolamprus jaegeri ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T176835A61319417. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/176835/61319417 Downloaded on 02 October 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Erythrolamprus jaegeri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 25 August 2014.
^ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Liophis jaegeri, p. 132).
^ Murphy, John C.; Braswell, Alvin L.; Charles, Stevland P.; Auguste, Renoir J.; Rivas, Gilson A.; Borzée, Amaël; Lehtinen, Richard M.; Jowers, Michael J. (2019). "A new species of Erythrolamprus from the oceanic island of Tobago (Squamata, Dipsadidae)". ZooKeys (817): 131–157. doi:10.3897/zookeys.817.30811.