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Geophis annuliferus
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Western Snail-Eating Snake

Geophis annuliferus (Boulenger, 1894)

Also calledCaracolera Occidental (spa)

This species is in the Catalogue of Life but not yet in the 2023 GBIF backbone or on iNaturalist: most likely it was described, or split from another species, very recently. What is known so far is below.

Recorded from
Mexico (Sinaloa, Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, Michoacan, Guerrero)
Also published as
Geophis tecpanecus Duges, 1896; Tantilla nelsoni Slevin, 1926; Tropidodipsas annulifera Boulenger, 1894; Tropidodipsas malacodryas Shannon & Humphrey, 1959
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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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References

  • Loc-barragán J.A., D., Lazcano y G.A Woolrich-Piña. (2018). Notes on the Herpetofauna of Nayarit, Mexico 2: Amphibians and Reptiles of the Municipality of Compostela. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 53(10): 205-212.
  • Lemos-Espinal JA, & Smith GR. (2020). A checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Sinaloa, Mexico with a conservation status summary and comparisons with neighboring states. ZooKeys 931: 85-114.
  • Shannon, F. A., & Humpfrey, F. L. (1959). Two new species of Tropidodipsas from the west coast of Mexico. Herpetologica 15 (4): 217-222.
  • GUO, PENG; FEI ZHU, QIN LIU, LIANG ZHANG, JIAN X. LI, YU Y. HUANG & R. ALEXANDER PYRON. (2014). A taxonomic revision of the Asian keelback snakes, genus Amphiesma (Serpentes: Colubridae: Natricinae), with description of a new species. Zootaxa 3873 (4): 425–440.
  • Amaral, & do, A. (1930). Estudos sobre ophidios neotropicos XVIII. Lista remissiva dos ophidios da região neotropica. Mem. Inst. Butantan 4: 126-271 [1929].
  • Grünwald, Christoph Imre, Nadia Pérez-Rivera, Iván Trinidad Ahumada-Carrillo, Héctor Franz-Chávez and Brandon Thomas La Forest. (2016). New distributional records for the herpetofauna of Mexico. Herpetological Review 47 (1): 85-90.

From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.