Barbour's tropical ground snake (Trimetopon barbouri), also known commonly as Barbour's pygmy snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Panama.
Etymology The specific name, barbouri, is in honor of American herpetologist Thomas Barbour.Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Trimetopon barbouri, p. 16).
Geographic range T. barbouri is endemic to the western region of Panama, and occasionally is found on Barro Colorado Island.
Habitat The preferred natural habitat of T. barbouri is forest, at altitudes of .
Description T. barbouri has two normal prefrontals, unlike other species of its genus which have the prefrontals fused. The holotype, a male, measures in total length, which includes a tail long.Dunn (1930).
Reproduction T. barbouri is oviparous. www.reptile-database.org.
References
Further reading Derry J, Ruback P, Ray JM (2015). "Range extension and notes on the natural history of Trimetopon barbouri Dunn, 1930 (Serpentes: Colubridae)". Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (1): 136–139. Dunn ER (1930). "New Snakes from Costa Rica and Panama". Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural History 5: 329–332. (Trimetopon barbouri, new species, p. 331).