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Hoffmann's Earth Snake
Geophis hoffmanni (Peters, 1859)
Also calledColubro terricolo di Hoffmann (ita) · Costaricansk Jordsnog (dan) · serpiente de tierra de hoffman (spa) · Геофис Гоффманна (rus)
First described in: Peters, W. Über die von Hrn. Dr. Hoffmann in Costa Rica gesammelten und an das Königl. Zoologische Museum gesandten Schlangen.
This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.
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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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Geophis hoffmanni in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2453740.