Drymoluber is a genus of New World snakes of the family Colubridae.
Geographic range The genus Drymoluber is endemic to South America.
Species Three species are recognized as being valid.. Drymoluber apurimacensis Lehr, Carrillo & Hocking, 2004 - Apurímac woodland racer Drymoluber brazili (Gomes, 1918) - Brazilian woodland racer Drymoluber dichrous (W. Peters, 1863) - 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.Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Drymoluber brazili, p. 37).
References
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. . (Drymoluber, pp. 69, 77, 97).