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Windward Treeracer

Mastigodryas bruesi (Barbour, 1914)

Status not recordedsnakes

The windward treeracer (Mastigodryas bruesi) is a species in the family Colubridae, order Squamata.

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Quick facts about the windward treeracer

Weight
up to 139.1 gsrc for Weight
Length
up to 1.22 msrc for Length
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Carnivoresrc for Diet
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
forestsrc for Habitat
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Reproduction
Eggssrc for Reproduction
Active
By day (diurnal)src for Active
Lifestyle
Arborealsrc for Lifestyle
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the windward treeracer live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the windward treeracer as introduced in 1 country.

  1. Barbados

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the windward treeracer endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the windward treeracer classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classReptilia
  4. orderSquamata
  5. familyColubridae
  6. genusMastigodryas
  7. SpeciesMastigodryas bruesi (Barbour, 1914)

Synonyms Alsophis bruesi

Other names and names in other languages (2)
  • Barbour's tropical racerEnglish
  • Cazadora Tropical de BarbourSpanish

Catalogue of LifeiNaturalistITISWikidata

Relatives of the windward treeracer

Other species in the same genus Mastigodryas.

Dryad snake

Mastigodryas melanolomus

ColubridaeNo free photo yet

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Is the windward treeracer an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the windward treeracer as introduced in 1 country: Barbados, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the windward treeracer?

The windward treeracer (Mastigodryas bruesi) belongs to the family Colubridae in the order Squamata.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

  • Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
    Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf
  • Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (GRIIS) · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-11-13
    Pagad, S., Genovesi, P., Carnevali, L., Schigel, D. & McGeoch, M.A. (2018) Introducing the Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species. Scientific Data 5: 170202. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.202. Country checklists published through GBIF by the IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group.
  • ReptTraits: a comprehensive dataset of ecological traits in reptiles · CC BY 4.0 · v1-2
    Oskyrko, O., Mi, C., Meiri, S. et al. (2024) ReptTraits: a comprehensive dataset of ecological traits in reptiles. Scientific Data 11: 243. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03079-5. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.24572683.v4
  • SquamBase 1.0 - a dataset of squamate species traits · CC0 1.0 · 1.0-dryad-v5
    Meiri, S. (2024) SquamBase - a database of squamate (Reptilia: Squamata) traits. Global Ecology and Biogeography 33(4): e13812. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13812. Data: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.76hdr7t3b
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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Windward Treeracer (Mastigodryas bruesi). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/windward-treeracer

MLA

“Windward Treeracer (Mastigodryas bruesi).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/windward-treeracer.

BibTeX
@misc{windward_treeracer_2026,
  title = {Windward Treeracer (Mastigodryas bruesi)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/windward-treeracer},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}