{{Short description|Genus of snakes}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic taxobox | name = ''Drymoluber'' | image = Drymoluber brazili.jpg | image_caption = ''Drymoluber brazili'' | taxon = Drymoluber | authority = Amaral, 1930 | subdivision_ranks = Species }}
'''''Drymoluber''''' is a genus of New World snakes of the family Colubridae.
==Geographic range== The genus ''Drymoluber'' is endemic to South America.<ref name="RDB"/>
==Species== Three species are recognized as being valid.<ref name="RDB">{{EMBL genus|genus=Drymoluber}}.</ref> *''Drymoluber apurimacensis'' <small>Lehr, Carrillo & Hocking, 2004</small> - Apurímac woodland racer *''Drymoluber brazili'' <small>(Gomes, 1918)</small> - Brazilian woodland racer *''Drymoluber dichrous'' <small>(W. Peters, 1863)</small> - northern woodland racer
''Nota bene'': A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Drymoluber''.
==Etymology== The specific name, ''brazili'', is in honor of Brazilian herpetologist Vital Brazil.<ref>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}}. (''Drymoluber brazili'', p. 37).</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== *Amaral A (1930). "''Estudos Sobre Ophidios Neotrópicos. XXII – Sobre a espécie'' Coluber dichrous ''(Peters) Boulenger, 1894'' ". ''Memórias do Instituto Butantan'' '''4''': 333–337. (''Drymoluber'', new genus). (in Portuguese). *Costa, Henrique Caldeira; Moura, Mário Ribeiro; Feio, Renato Neves (2013). "Taxonomic revision of ''Drymoluber'' Amaral, 1930 (Serpentes: Colubridae)". ''Zootaxa'' '''3716''' (3): 349–394. *Freiberg M (1982). ''Snakes of South America''. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. {{ISBN|0-87666-912-7}}. (''Drymoluber'', pp. 69, 77, 97).
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Category:Drymoluber Category:Snake genera