Sibon lamari is a species of snake in the subfamily Dipsadinae of the family Colubridae. The species is native to Central America.
Etymology The specific name, lamari, is in honor of American herpetologist William Wylly Lamar.Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Sibon lamari, p. 149).
Geographic range S. lamari is found in Costa Rica and Panama. www.reptile-database.org.
Habitat The preferred natural habitat of S. lamari is forest, at altitudes of .
Behavior S. lamari is arboreal.
Diet S. lamari preys upon snails.
Reproduction S. lamari is oviparous.
References
Further reading Campos-Villalobos, Jorge; Pereira-Castillo, Gerald; Serrano-Hernández, Víctor (2020). "New records of the Costa Rican Snaileater, Sibon lamari Solórzano 2001 (Squamata: Dipsadidae), from Alajuela Province, Costa Rica". Reptiles & Amphibians 27 (3): 434–435. Lotzkat S (2014). Diversity, taxonomy, and biogeography of the reptiles inhabiting the highlands of the Cordillera Central (Serranía de Talamanca and Serranía de Tabasará) in western Panama. Doctoral Dissertation. Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main. 930 pp. (Sibon lamari, pp. 698–700). Solórzano A (2001). "Una nueva especie de serpiente del género Sibon (Serpentes: Colubridae) de la vertiente del Caribe de Costa Rica". Revista de Biología Tropical 49 (3–4): 1111–1120. (Sibon lamari, new species). (in Spanish, with an abstract in English). Solórzano A (2004). Snakes of Costa Rica: Distribution, taxonomy, and natural history. Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica: Instituto Nacional de Biodiversida. 791 pp. .