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Thamnophis fulvus (BOCOURT, 1893)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Natricinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Highland Garter Snake
G: Guatemala-Strumpfbandnatter
S: Jarretera de Los Altos Mesoamericanos 
SynonymEutaenia cyrtopsis var. fulvus BOCOURT 1893: 777
Thamnophis sumichrasti cerebrosus SMITH 1942: 111
Thamnophis sumichrasti fulvus — SMITH 1942: 112
Thamnophis sumichrasti salvini SMITH, NIXON & SMITH 1950: 579
Thamnophis cyrtopsis fulvus — ROSSMAN 1965: 243
Thamnophis cyrtopsis — STUART 1963
Thamnophis cyrtopsis fulvus — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 302
Thamnophis fulvus — VILLA et al. 1988
Thamnophis fulvus — LINER 1994
Thamnophis fulvus — LINER 2007
Thamnophis fulvus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 722 
DistributionSE Mexico (Chiapas), Guatemala, Honduras (elevation 1680-2020 m), El Salvador

Has been found in 3000 m elevation or higher.

Type locality: Alta Verapaz, Guatemala.  
Reproductionovoviviparous 
TypesHolotype: MNHN-RA 1894.0094
Holotype: BMNH 1869.2.22.3 [salvini]
Holotype: USNM 12734 [Thamnophis sumichrasti cerebrosus] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: “Dorsal scales usually in a maximum of 19 rows; supralabials usually 8 (occasionally 7); maxillary teeth 27 to 31; the dorsum olive-brown with 2 alternating rows of relatively indis- tinct black spots between the stripes; the vertebral stripe confined to the vertebral row and often indistinct or absent except on neck; the lateral stripe confined to dorsal scale rows 2 and 3 and often indistinct; tongue uniformly black.” (Rossman 1996: 183)


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CommentSynonymy partly after PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970.

Diet: amphibians. 
Etymologythe Latin noun fulvus, means "tawny, reddish yellow". 
References
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  • Bourguignon, T. 2002. Strumpfbandnattern: Herkunft - Pflege - Arten. E. Ulmer Verlag, 125 pp.
  • Burbrink FT, Futterman I. 2019. Female‐ biased gape and body-size dimorphism in the New World watersnakes (tribe: Thamnophiini) oppose predictions from Rensch's rule. Ecol Evol. 00:1–10
  • Eisermann, Knut, Claudia Avendaño, Manuel Acevedo and Esteban Matías. 2016. Elevational range extension and new habitat for Thamnophis fulvus (Bocourt, 1893) (Squamata: Natricidae). Guatemala, Huehuetenango. Mesoamerican Herpetology 3(4): 1094–1097 - get paper here
  • Grübner, D. 2006. Die seltener beobachteten Strumpfbandnattern. Draco 6 (25): 66-76 - get paper here
  • Guerra Centeno, Dennis; Héctor Fuentes Rousselin & David Morán Villatoro 2012. Serpientes de Guatemala: Guía para didentificación de especies. Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, 186 pp.
  • HALLAS, JOSHUA M.; THOMAS L. PARCHMAN & CHRIS R. FELDMAN. 2021. Phylogenomic analyses resolve relationships among garter snakes (Thamnophis: Natricinae: Colubridae) and elucidate biogeographic history and morphological evolution. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 107374. [2022 in print] - get paper here
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  • Queiroz, Alan de; Robin Lawson and Julio A. Lemos-Espinal 2002. Phylogenetic Relationships of North American Garter Snakes (Thamnophis) Based on Four Mitochondrial Genes: How Much DNA Sequence Is Enough? Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 22: 315-329 - get paper here
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