COL·C76ZHspeciesThe Nature Library · Catalogue of Life, 2026

Terrestrial Snail Sucker
Geophis sartorii (Cope, 1863)
Also calledCaracolera Terrestre (spa) · Neotropische Schneckennatter (deu)
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 (Chiapas, Yucatan, Campeche, Quintana Roo, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Quéretaro, Tabasco, Hidalgo, Puebla, Guerrero, Guanajuato), Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica
- Also published as
- Galedon annularis Jan, 1863; Geophis annulatus Peters, 1870; Leptognathus (Tropidodipsas) bernoullii Müller, 1887; Leptognathus (Tropidodipsas) cuculliceps Müller, 1887; Leptognathus dumerilii Jan, 1863; Leptognathus leucostomus Bocourt, 1884; Leptognathus semicinctus Bocourt, 1884; Leptognathus sexcutatus Bocourt, 1884; Tropidodipsas macdougalli Smith, 1943; Tropidodipsas sartorii Cope, 1863; Tropidodipsas sartorii macdougalli Smith, 1943; Tropidodipsas semicincta (Bocourt, 1884)
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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
- Vásquez-Cruz, V., & Luis Canseco-Márquez. (2020). AMPHIBIAN AND REPTILES OF THE COLONIA AGRÍCOLA RINCÓN DE LAS FLORES, TEZONAPA, VERACRUZ, MEXICO. Rev. Latinoamer. Herp. 3 (1): 66-80.
- 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.
- Nahuat-Cervera, & Pedro Enrique. (2020). Amphibians and reptiles of the Hobonil Educative Center, Tzucacab, Yucatán, Mexico. Rev. Latinoamer. Herp. 3 (1): 53-65.
- Cope, E. D. (1885). Twelfth contribution to the herpetology of tropical America. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 22: 167-194 [1884].
From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.




