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Boulenger's Slender Snake
Tachymenoides affinis Boulenger, 1896
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
- Peru (Huánuco, Amazonas)
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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
- Lehr, E. (2002). Amphibien und Reptilien in Peru. Natur Und Tier-Verlag (Münster), 208 Pp.
- Lehr, Edgar; Jiří Moravec, Mikael Lundberg, Gunther Köhler, Alessandro Catenazzi & Jiří Šmíd,. (2019). A new genus and species of arboreal lizard (Gymnophthalmidae: Cercosaurinae) from the eastern Andes of Peru. Salamandra 55 (1): 1–13.
- Walker, W. F. (1945). A Study of the Snake, Tachymenis peruviana Wiegmann AND ITS Allies. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 96: 1-56.
- Chávez, & Germán. (2011). Tachymenis affinis Boulenger, 1896 (Squamata: Colubridae): distribution extension in Perú. Herpetotropicos 7 (1-2):
- Boulenger, G. A. (1896). Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum, Vol. 3. London (Taylor & Francis), Xiv + 727 Pp.
- Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams, Jeff Boundy. (2014). Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue]. Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 Pp.
From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.