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Geophis sanniolus
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Pigmy Snail Sucker

Geophis sanniolus (Cope, 1866)

Also calledCaracolera Pigmea (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 (Yucatan, Campeche, Quintana Roo), Belize, Guatemala
Also published as
Mesopeltis sanniolus Cope, 1866; Sibon neilli Henderson, Hoevers & Wilson, 1977; Sibon sanniolus neilli Henderson, Hoevers & Wilson, 1977
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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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References

  • Aguilar-López JL, Luría-Manzano R, Pineda E, & Canseco-Márquez L. (2021). Selva Zoque, Mexico: an important Mesoamerican tropical region for reptile species diversity and conservation. ZooKeys 1054: 127-153.
  • Köhler, Gunther, J. Rogelio Cedeño-Vázquez, Till Kirstein and Pablo Beutelspacher-García. (2016). The Chetumal Snake Census: generating biological data from road-killed snakes. Part 2. Dipsas brevifacies, Sibon sanniolus, and Tropidodipsas sartorii. Mesoamerican Herpetology 3 (3): 689–705.
  • Lee, J. C. (2000). A field guide to the amphibians and reptiles of the Maya world. Cornell University Press, Ithaca,.
  • Gaige, H. (1936). Some reptiles and amphibians from Yucatan and Campeche, Mexico. Carnegie Inst. Wash. Publ., (457): 289-304.
  • Barbour, T., and L. J. Cole. (1906). Vertebrata from Yucatan. Reptilia, Amphibia and Pisces. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 50: 146-159.
  • Lee, J. C. (1996). The amphibians and reptiles of the Yucatán Peninsula. Comstock, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 500 Pp.

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