Underwood's mussurana

Underwood's mussurana
Conservation status
Extinct  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Clelia
Species:	†C. errabunda
Binomial name
†Clelia errabunda Underwood  [ fr ], 1993

Underwood's mussurana or Saint Lucia cribo (Clelia errabunda) is an extinct species of snake in the family Dipsadidae. The species was formerly endemic to the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia. It was originally thought to belong to the species Clelia clelia . Like other species of mussurana, it is known to have fed on other snakes; one museum specimen is preserved in the act of swallowing a Bothrops species. Its extinction is believed to have been caused by human activity.

It was mistakenly recorded as present on Dominica due to a cataloging error.

References

• Malhotra, Anita; Thorpe, Roger S. (1999). Reptiles & Amphibians of the Eastern Caribbean. London: Macmillan Education Ltd. 144 pp. ISBN   0-333-69141-5. (Clelia errabunda, pp. 50, 96).
• Powell, Robert; Henderson, Robert W. (2005). "Conservation Status of Lesser Antillean Reptiles". Iguana12 (2): 63–77.

Further reading

• Underwood G  ^{[ fr ]} (1993). "A new snake from St. Lucia, West Indies". Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. (Zool.)59 (1): 1–9. (Clelia errabunda, new species).

External links

• Clelia errabunda at the Encyclopedia of Life.
• Clelia errabunda at the Reptile Database.