Synophis

{{Short description|Genus of snakes}} {{Automatic Taxobox | image = Synophys species.jpg | image_caption = | taxon = Synophis | authority = Peracca, 1896 | subdivision_ranks = Species }} '''''Synophis''''' is a genus of snakes in the subfamily Dipsadinae of the family Colubridae. The genus is native to northwestern South America.

==Description== Snakes of the genus ''Synophis'' have unusual scalation on the top of the head. The internasal scales are very small, and the prefrontal scales are fused into one large plate.<ref>Peracca (1896).</ref>

==Species== The genus ''Synophis'' contains the following nine species which are recognized as being valid.<ref name="RDB">{{EMBL genus|genus=Synophis}}.</ref> *''Synophis bicolor'' {{small|Peracca, 1896}} – bicolored shadow snake, two-colored fishing snake *''Synophis bogerti'' {{small|Torres-Carvajal, Echevarría, Venegas, Chávez & Camper, 2015}} – Bogert's shadow snake *''Synophis calamitus'' {{small|Hillis, 1990}} – calamitous shadow snake *''Synophis insulomontanus'' {{small|Torres-Carvajal, Echevarría, Venegas, Chávez & Camper, 2015}} – mountain shadow snake *''Synophis lasallei'' {{small|(Nicéforo-María, 1950)}} – La Salle's shadow snake *''Synophis niceforomariae'' {{small|Pyron, Arteaga, Echevarría & Torres-Carvajal, 2016}} – Nicéforo María's shadow snake *''Synophis plectovertebralis'' {{small|Sheil & T. Grant, 2001}} – braided shadow snake *''Synophis zaheri'' {{small|Pyron, Guayasamin, Peñafiel, Bustamante & Arteaga, 2015}} – Zaher's shadow snake *''Synophis zamora'' {{small|Torres-Carvajal, Echevarría, Venegas, Chávez & Camper, 2015}} – Zamoran shadow snake

''Nota bene'': A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Synophis''.

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Further reading== *Peracca MG (1896). "''Nuovo genere di Colubride aglifo dell'America meridionale'' ". ''Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata della R[egia]. Università di Torino'' '''11''' (266): 1–2. (''Synophis'', new genus). (in Italian). *Pyron, R. Alexander; Arteaga, Alejandro; Echevarría, Lourdes Y.; Torres-Carvajal, Omar (2016). "A revision and key for the tribe Diaphorolepidini (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) and checklist for the genus ''Synophis'' ". ''Zootaxa'' '''4171''' (2): 293–320.

Category:Synophis Category:Snake genera Category:Taxa named by Mario Giacinto Peracca