Trimetopon slevini DUNN, 1940

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Slevin's Tropical Ground Snake
Synonym	Trimetopon slevini DUNN 1940: 117 Trimetopon slevini — SLEVIN 1942: 474 Trimetopon slevini — VILLA et al. 1988 Trimetopon slevini — SAVAGE 2002 Trimetopon slevini — WALLACH et al. 2014: 744
Distribution	Costa Rica, Panama Type locality: Near Boquete, Chiriqui Prov., Panama, elevation 4000 feet
Reproduction	oviparous; one female had 2, another had 1 developed egg (Dunn 1940)
Types	Holotype: CAS 78938
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: “A Trimetopon with two prefrontals. Allied to T. barbouri Dunn and to T. viquezi Dunn; differs from the first in having more dorsals (17) and more ventrals (153-161); differs from the second in having paired light spots on nape, in lacking a dark streak on scale row 4, in that extension of white neck-color dorsally does not involve seventh upper labial.” Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 1152 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
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References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Dunn,E.R. 1940. New and noteworthy herpetological material from Panamá. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia. 92: 105-122. - get paper here Köhler, G. 2008. Reptiles of Central America. 2nd Ed. Herpeton-Verlag, 400 pp. Mudde, P, & VAN DIJK, M. 1985. Herpetologische waarnemingen in Costa Rica (13). Slangen (Serpentes). Lacerta 43: 176-180. - get paper here Sasa, M., Arias, E., & Chaves, G. 2025. Annotated list of amphibians and reptiles of Costa Rica: The role of the Museum of Zoology in cataloging the country’s herpetological diversity. Revista de Biología Tropical, 73(S2): e64536-e64536 - get paper here Savage, J.M. 2002. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Herpetofauna Between Two Continents, Between Two Seas. University of Chicago Press, 934 pp. [review in Copeia 2003 (1): 205] Slevin, J.R. 1942. Notes on a collection of reptiles from Boquete, Panama, with the description of a new species of Hydromorphus. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 23: 463-480 - get paper here Smokoksa, M. and V. J. Acosta-Chaves 2017. Trimetopon slevini Dunn, 1940. Predation on a velvet worm. Mesoamerican Herpetology 4 (2): 438–441 - get paper here Solorzano, A. 2004. Serpientes de Costa Rica - Snakes of Costa Rica. Editorial INBio, Costa Rica, 792 pp. Taylor,E.H. 1954. Further studies on the serpents of Costa Rica. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 36: 673-800. - get paper here 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.
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Richard_Slevin Google images

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