Critically Endangered
Antilles racer
Alsophis antillensis
Antilles racer, also known as the Guadeloupe racer, Antilles racer, or Leeward racer, is a snake endemic to the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Dominica.
The snake
The Antilles racer can reach nearly a meter in length.
Range and habitat
The genus Alsophis is endemic to the Lesser Antilles. Antilles racer is a terrestrial snake endemic to the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe (Grande-Terre and Basse-Terre) and Marie-Galante. Antilles racer, also known as the Guadeloupe racer, Antilles racer, or Leeward racer, is a snake endemic to the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Dominica.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
This species was placed on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species in 2015 and is labeled as Critically Endangered.
Antilles racer is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Antilles racer, Wikidata item Q2380923. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
