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Tropidodipsas is a genus of New World snakes of the family Colubridae.

Geographic range

Species of the genus Tropidodipsas are found in Mexico and Central America.^[1]

Ten species are recognized as being valid.^[1]

Tropidodipsas fasciata Günther, 1858 - banded snail sucker
Tropidodipsas fischeri Boulenger, 1894 - Fischer’s snail-eating snake
Tropidodipsas guerreroensis Taylor, 1939 – Guerrero snail sucker
Tropidodipsas papavericola Grünwald, Toribio-Jiménez, Montaño-Ruvalcaba, Franz-Chávez, Peñaloza-Montaño, Barrera-Nava, J.M. Jones, C.M. Rodriguez, I. Hughes, Strickland & Reyes-Velasco, 2021
Tropidodipsas philippii (Jan, 1863) - Philippi’s snail-eating snake
Tropidodipsas repleta H.M. Smith, Lemos-Espinal, Hartman & Chiszar, 2005
Tropidodipsas tricolor Grünwald, Toribio-Jiménez, Montaño-Ruvalcaba, Franz-Chávez, Peñaloza-Montaño, Barrera-Nava, J.M. Jones, C.M. Rodriguez, I.M. Hughes, Strickland & Reyes-Velasco, 2021 - tricolor snail sucker
Tropidodipsas zweifeli Liner & Wilson, 1970 - Zweifel’s snail-eating snake

The specific name, philippii, is in honor of German-Chilean zoologist Rodolfo Amando Philippi.^[3]

The specific name, zweifeli, is in honor of American herpetologist Richard G. Zweifel.^[4]

Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5.
Boulenger GA (1894). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xi + 382 pp. + Plates I-XX. (Genus Tropidodipsas, p. 294; T. annulifera, new species, p. 297 + Plate XIV, figure 1; T. fasciata, p. 295; T. fischeri, p. 296; T. philippii, p. 295; T. sartorii, pp. 296–297).
Günther A (1858). Catalogue of the Colubrine Snakes in the Collection of the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xvi + 281 pp. (Tropidodipsas, new genus, pp. 180–181).

Taxon identifiers
Tropidodipsas	Wikidata: Q5083393 Wikispecies: Tropidodipsas ADW: Tropidodipsas CoL: 832Y EoL: 35431 GBIF: 2456586 iNaturalist: 28257 IRMNG: 1117273 ITIS: 1081466 NCBI: 1212736 Open Tree of Life: 4121985

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