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Lacépède's Ground Snake
Erythrolamprus cursor (Lacépède, 1789)
Source-backed taxonomic record
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
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Open encyclopedia reference
Lacépède's ground snake (Erythrolamprus cursor), also known as the Martinique ground snake or Martinique racer, is a possibly extinct species of snake in the Colubridae family. It is endemic to Caribbean island of Martinique. Little is known of it scientifically, and few photographs exist.
Wikipedia contributors, Lacépède's ground snake; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T10:32:16.329922+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Erythrolamprus cursor (Lacépède, 1789)
- Name authority
- (Lacépède, 1789)
- Common name
- Lacépède's Ground Snake
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Colubridae
- Genus
- Erythrolamprus
- Extinction status
- Not supplied by this source
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- subphylumVertebrata
- infraphylumGnathostomata
- parvphylumOsteichthyes
- megaclassTetrapoda
- classReptilia Laurenti, 1768
- orderSquamata Oppel, 1811
- suborderSerpentes Linnaeus, 1758
- infraorderAlethinophidia Nopcsa, 1923
- familyColubridae
- subfamilyDipsadinae
- genusErythrolamprus
- speciesErythrolamprus cursor (Lacépède, 1789)
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Erythrolamprus. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Günther’s Green LiophisErythrolamprus albertguentheri (Grazziotin, Zaher, Murphy, Scrocchi, Benavides, Zhang & Bonatto, 2012) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Almaden Ground SnakeErythrolamprus almadensis (Wagler, 1824) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Erythrolamprus andinus (Dixon, 1983) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Long Ground Snake [longiventris]Erythrolamprus breviceps (Cope, 1860) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Erythrolamprus carajasensis (Cunha, Nascimento & Ávila-Pires, 1985) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Drab Ground SnakeErythrolamprus festae (Peracca, 1897) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Swamp LiophisErythrolamprus frenatus (Werner, 1909) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Erythrolamprus ingeri (Roze, 1958) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Julia's Ground SnakeErythrolamprus juliae (Cope, 1879) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maryellen's Ground SnakeErythrolamprus maryellenae (Dixon, 1985) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Military Ground SnakeErythrolamprus miliaris (Linnaeus, 1758) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mimic False Coral SnakeErythrolamprus mimus (Cope, 1868) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Names & synonyms
Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.
| Recorded name | Source status |
|---|---|
| Coluber cursor Lacépède, 1789 Lacépède, 1789 | synonym |
| Coluber cursor Bonnaterre, 1790 Bonnaterre, 1790 | synonym |
Documented distribution
Source distribution statements, not a complete range map. A listed locality is not necessarily a place of origin.
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Erythrolamprus&species=cursor Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:3BDY8. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.