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Thamnophis copei
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Cope's Mountain Meadow Snake

Thamnophis copei Dugès, 1879

Also calledPradera de Cope (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 (Guanajuato, Jalisco, Morelos)
Also published as
Adelophis copei Dugès ex Cope, 1879
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References

  • Cope, E. D. (1879). Eleventh contribution to the herpetology of tropical America. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 18: 261-277.
  • Rosas-Espinoza, V. C., Rodríguez-Zaragoza, F. A., Álvarez-Grzybowska, E., Peña-Joya, K. E., Santiago-Pérez, A. L., Godoy-González, A. A., & Huerta-Martínez, F. M. (2024). Taxonomic and Functional Diversity of Reptiles in a Heterogeneous Landscape of Jalisco State, West-Central Mexico. Diversity 2024, 16, 394.
  • Osborn, H. F. (1929). Biographical memoir of Edward Drinker Cope 1840-1897. National Academy of Sciences 13: 127-317 (1930?).
  • Grünwald, C. I., María del Carmen, G., Grünwald, A. J., Montaño-Ruvalcaba, C., Franz-Chávez, H., García-Vázquez, U. O., & Reyes-Velasco, J. (2024). A new species of Thamnophis (Serpentes, Colubridae) from Jalisco, Mexico, with a discussion on the phylogeny, taxonomy, and distribution of snakes related to Thamnophis scalaris. Herpetozoa, 37, 157-179.
  • Castro-Franco, Rubén, & María Guasalupe Bustos-Zagal. (1994). List of reptiles of Morelos, Mexico, and their distribution in relation to vegetation types. Southwestern Naturalist 39 (2): 171-175.
  • Dunn, E. R. (1931). Some Central American snake genera. Copeia 1931 (4): 163.

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