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Cope's Tropical Ground Snake
Trimetopon pliolepis Cope, 1894
Also calledColubro terricolo tropicale di Cope (ita) · Culebra Enana de Collar (spa)
First described in: Cope, E. D. Third addition to a knowledge of the batrachia and reptilia of Costa Rica.
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 Trimetopon pliolepis in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2453925.