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Tropidodipsas philippii (JAN, 1863)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Philippi’s Snail-Eating Snake
S: Caracolera de Philippi 
SynonymLeptognathus philippii JAN 1863
Leptognathus albocinctus FISCHER 1885: 107
Dipeltophis albocinctus
Tropidodipsas philippii — SMITH & TAYLOR 1945
Tropidodipsas freiae SHANNON & HUMPHREY 1959 (fide SCOTT 1967)
Tropidodipsas occidentala OLIVER 1937: 20
Tropidodipsas philippii — SCOTT 1967
Sibon philippii — KOFRON 1985
Sibon philippii — LINER 1994
Tropidodipsas philippii — WALLACH 1995
Tropidodipsas philippii — WALLACH et al. 2014: 746
Tropidodipsas philippii — MATA-SILVA et al. 2015
Tropidodipsas philippii — GRÜNWALD et al. 2021 
DistributionMexico (Oaxaca, Nayarit, Sinaloa, Colima, Jalisco)

Type locality: Mazatlan, Sinaloa.

occidentala: Colima; Type locality: Colima, Comala.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ZMH Hamburg Museum
Holotype: UMMZ [occidentala] 
DiagnosisDIAGNOSIS (occidentala, n=1). Dorsal scales in fifteen rows, smooth; two preoculars; loreal not in contact with the eye; eighty-one subcaudals.


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CommentSynonymy after KOFRON 1985 and WALLACH 1995.

Distribution: See Grünwald et al. 2021: 252 (Fig. 10) for a map. 
EtymologyNamed after Rodolfo Amando Philippi (1808-1904), a German-Chilean zoologist and paleontologist. He left Germany as a young man, ostensibly because he thought he was gravely ill and wanted to end his days in a mild Mediterranean climate. 
References
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