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Hartweg’s Snail-eating Snake
Sibon hartwegi (Peters, 1960)
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
- Colombia
- Also published as
- Sibon nebulata hartwegi Peters, 1960
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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
- Bernal, R. (2025). Serpientes de Colombia-Guía de Campo. Serie de Guías Tropicales de Campo. 19: 396 Pp. Conservación Internacional Colombia, Bogotá.
- FOUQUET, A., ARTEAGA, A., DE SOUSA, Á. R., & AVILA, R. W. (2025). A new species of Sibon (Serpentes, Dipsadini) from French Guiana and amended diagnosis of Sibon nebulatus. Zootaxa 5646(1): 93-114.
- Pérez-Santos, C., & Moreno, A. G. (1988). Ofidios de Colombia. Museo Reegionale Di Scienze Naturali, Torino, Monographie VI, 517 Pp.
- Peters, J. A. (1960). The snakes of the subfamily Dipsadinae. Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool., Univ. Michigan (114): 224 Pp.
- Arteaga, A., & Batista, A. (2023). A consolidated phylogeny of snail-eating snakes (Serpentes, Dipsadini), with the description of five new species from Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama. ZooKeys 1143: 1-49.
From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.