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Apostolepis multicincta HARVEY, 1999

IUCN Red List - Apostolepis multicincta - Near Threatened, NT
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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Harvey’s Blackhead 
SynonymApostolepis multicincta HARVEY 1999
Apostolepis multicincta — EMBERT & REICHLE 2004
Apostolepis multicincta — WALLACH et al. 2014: 52
Apostolepis multicincta — ENTIAUSPE-NETO et la. 2021 
DistributionBolivia (Santa Cruz, Cochabamba), elevation up to 1800 m, Argentina (Jujuy)

Type locality: vicinity of Pampagrande, Provincia Florida, Departamento Santa Cruz, Bolivia  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MNK (= NK), paratypes in ZFMK and NKA 
Diagnosis 
Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Latin multi, many things (pl.); much; many and Latin cinctus, surrounded, encircled. [“...The specific epithet multicincta is derived from the Latin noun cinctum meaning band or belt and multus meaning many...”]. (from Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., May 2024) 
References
  • Böhme, Wolfgang 2014. Herpetology in Bonn. Mertensiella 21. vi + 256 pp. - get paper here
  • Burgos GF, Baldo JL, Vilte A, Scrocchi G 2017. Apostolepis multicincta Harvey 1999 (Squamata, Dipsadidae) in Argentina. Check List 13 (6): 913-916 - get paper here
  • Embert, D. & S. Reichle 2003. Neue Daten zu Apostolepis multicincta Harvey, 1999 aus den innerandinen Trockentälern Boliviens. Salamandra 39 (3-4): 249-253 - get paper here
  • Entiauspe-Neto, Omar M, Claudia Koch, Russell J Gray, Arthur Tiutenko, Daniel Loebmann, and Thaís B Guedes. 2021. Taxonomic Status of Apostolepis Tertulianobeui Lema, 2004 Based on an Integrative Revision of Apostolepis Assimilis (Reinhardt, 1861) (Serpentes: Dipsadidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 291: 123–38 - get paper here
  • FRANÇA, DANIELLA. P. F.; FAUSTO E. BARBO, NELSON J. SILVA-JÚNIOR, HELDER L. R. SILVA, HUSSAM ZAHER 2018. A new species of Apostolepis (Serpentes, Dipsadidae, Elapomorphini) from the Cerrado of Central Brazil. Zootaxa 4521 (4): 438-552 - get paper here
  • Harvey, Michael B. 1999. Revision of Bolivian Apostolepis (Squamata: Colubridae). Copeia 1999 (2): 388-409 - get paper here
  • Lema, Thales de 2001. Fossorial snake genus Apostolepis from South America (Serpentes: Colubridae: Elapomorphinae). Cuadernos de herpetología 15 (1): 29-43.
  • Lema, Thales de 2002. Redescription of Apostolepis sanctaeritae Werner 1924 (Serpentes, Colubridae), and a comparison with related species. Copeia 2002 (4): 1147-1151 - get paper here
  • Lema, Thales De & Márcia Ferret Renner 2005. Contribuição ao conhecimento taxonômico de Apostolepis flavotorquata (Serpentes, Elapomorphinae). Biociências 13 (2): 163-175
  • Mendoza-Miranda, Patricia; Callapa, Gabriel; Muñoz S., Arturo 2017. Variación y primer registro de Apostolepis multicincta Harvey, 1999 (Squamata: Dipsadidae) para el departamento de Cochabamba, Bolivia. Cuad. herpetol. 32 (1): - 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.
 
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