Geophis laticinctus SMITH & WILLIAMS, 1963

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Mesa Central Earth Snake S: Minadora de la Meseta Central
Synonym	Geophis laticinctus SMITH & WILLIAMS 1963 Geophis laticinctus albiventris SMITH & HALLAND 1969: 51 Geophis semidoliatus — ALVAREZ DEL TOTO 1982 Geophis laticinctus — VILLA et al. 1988 Geophis laticinctus — LINER 1994 Geophis laticinctus — WILSON & TOWNSEND 2007: 13 Geophis laticinctus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 303
Distribution	SE Mexico (Oaxaca, Chiapas, Tabasco [HR]), 730-1800 m elevation Type locality: Near Colonia Francisco I. Madero, ca. 1800 m elevation, municipality of Jitotol, Chiapas, Mexico.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: INHS (= UIMNH) 51352, adult female collected 23 December 1961 by T. MacDougall.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Downs 1967: 131 Additional details (29 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment
Etymology	Named after Latin latus, wide, broad; spacious, extensive + Latin cinctus, surrounded, encircled. [“...a broad light neck ring...”].
References	Aguilar-López JL, Luría-Manzano R, Pineda E, Canseco-Márquez L 2021. Selva Zoque, Mexico: an important Mesoamerican tropical region for reptile species diversity and conservation. ZooKeys 1054: 127-153 - get paper here Barragán-Vázquez, María Del Rosario, López-Luna, Marco Antonio and Torrez-Perez, Marco Antonio 2017. Geographic Distribution: Geophis laticinctus (Mesa Central Earth Snake). Herpetological Review 48 (1): 128 - get paper here Canseco-Márquez, Luis, and Cynthia Grisell Ramírez-Gonzalez. 2015. New herpetofaunal records for the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2(3): 363–367 - get paper here Downs, F. L. 1967. lntrageneric relations among colubrid snakes of the genus Geophis Wagler. Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan 131: 1-193. - get paper here Heimes, P. 2016. Snakes of Mexico. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 572 pp Johnson, J. D. 1979. Taxonomic status and distribution of Geophis laticinctus (Colubridae) in southern México. Southwestern Naturalist 24: 698-701. - get paper here Johnson, Jerry D.; Vicente Mata-Silva, Elí García Padilla, and Larry David Wilson 2015. The Herpetofauna of Chiapas, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (3): 272–329. - get paper here Mata-Silva, Vicente, Jerry D. Johnson, Larry David Wilson and Elí García-Padilla. 2015. The herpetofauna of Oaxaca, Mexico: composition, physiographic distribution, and conservation status. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (1): 6–62 - get paper here Simón-Salvador PR, Arreortúa M, Flores CA, Santiago-Dionicio H, González-Bernal E 2021. The role of Indigenous and Community Conservation Areas in herpetofauna conservation: a preliminary list for Santa Cruz Tepetotutla, Oaxaca Mexico. ZooKeys 1029: 185-208 - get paper here Smith, H. M., & HOLLAND, R. L. 1969. Two new snakes of the genus Geophis from México. Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 72: 47-53. - get paper here Smith, H. M., & WILLIAMS, K. L. 1963. New and noteworthy amphibians and reptiles from southern México. Herpetologica 19: 22-27. - 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. WILSON, L.D. & J.H. TOWNSEND 2007. A checklist and key to the snakes of the genus Geophis (Squamata: Colubridae: Dipsadinae), with commentary on distribution and conservation. Zootaxa 1395: 1-31 - get paper here
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