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.Peracca (1896).
Species The genus Synophis contains the following nine species which are recognized as being valid.. Synophis bicolor – bicolored shadow snake, two-colored fishing snake Synophis bogerti – Bogert's shadow snake Synophis calamitus – calamitous shadow snake Synophis insulomontanus – mountain shadow snake Synophis lasallei – La Salle's shadow snake Synophis niceforomariae – Nicéforo María's shadow snake Synophis plectovertebralis – braided shadow snake Synophis zaheri – Zaher's shadow snake Synophis zamora – Zamoran shadow snake
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Synophis.
References
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.