Baker's Cat-eyed Snake

The dorsal scales of Leptodeira bakeri are arranged in 19 rows on the neck, 17 rows at midbody, and 15 rows near the cloaca. The ventral scales number 170–175.

Leptodeira bakeri can be found on the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba, the Paraguaná Peninsula of Falcón, Venezuela, and in Zulia, Venezuela, in an area to the southwest of the state capital Maracaibo. In total, its geographic range spans an area of about 11,000 km2 (4,200 sq mi).

The specific name, bakeri, is in honor of American zoologist Horace Burrington Baker, who collected the holotype on 6 August 1922, with the type locality being Bubali, Aruba. In 1923, after Baker had brought back with him the series of specimens that contained the eventual holotype to Museum of Zoology at the University of Michigan, herpetologist Alexander G. Ruthven examined and recorded it as a member of Leptodeira annulata. It would not be until later, after he investigated the eventual holotype and other snake specimens from its region, that Ruthven concluded that it constituted a separate species, the original description of which he published in 1936.