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False Tomodon Snake

Tachymenis trigonatus (Leybold, 1873)

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
W Argentina (Chubut, Rio Negro, Neuquén, La Pampa, Menodza, San Luis, San Juan, La Rioja, Córdoba, Santiago del Estero, Catamarca)
Also published as
Pelias trigonatus Leybold, 1873; Pseudotomodon crivellii Peracca, 1897; Pseudotomodon mendozinus Koslowsky, 1896; Tomodon ocellatus Boulenger, 1896
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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

  • Arzamendia, V., Bellini, G. P., Ulibarrie, A. A., & Giraudo, A. R. (2026). Fighting biodiversity loss in the Anthropocene: the INALI snake collection as a key resource for natural history in the Global South. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 147(1), Blaf132.
  • Abalos, J.W., Baez, E.C., & Nader, R. (1964). Serpientes de Santiago del Estero. Acta Zoologica Lilloana 20: 211-283.
  • Scrocchi, G.J.; Moreta, J.C. & Kretzschmar, S. (2006). Serpientes del Noroeste Argento [Jujuy, Salta, Tucumán, Catamarca, La Rioja, Santiago del Estero]. Fundación Miguel Lillo, Tucumán, 178 Pp.
  • Trevine, V. C., Grazziotin, F. G., Giraudo, A., Sallesbery‐Pinchera, N., Vianna, J. A., & Zaher, H. (2022). The systematics of Tachymenini (Serpentes, Dipsadidae): An updated classification based on molecular and morphological evidence. Zoologica Scripta.
  • Avila, & Luciano Javier. (1997). Geographic Distribution. Pseudotomodon trigonatus. Herpetological Review 28 (2): 98.
  • Cei, J. M. (1993). Reptiles del noroeste, nordeste y este de la Argentina. Museo Regionale Sci. Naturale Torino, Monografie 14: 1-949.

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