Chironius leucometapus DIXON, WIEST & CEI, 1993
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Higher Taxa | Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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Common Names | E: Yellow-headed Sipo |
Synonym | Chironius fuscus leucometapus WIEST 1978 Chironius fuscus leucometapus DIXON, WIEST & CEI 1993 Chironius leucometapus — HOLLIS 2006 Chironius leucometapus — SOUZA-FILHO et a. 2012 Chironius leucometapus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 161 |
Distribution | N Ecuador, Peru (Huanuco, Junin, San Martin), 500–3500 m elevation Type locality: “Peru, Depanmenl of Junin, Chanchamayo” |
Reproduction | oviparous. |
Types | Holotype: AMNH 53317 |
Diagnosis | Diagnosis: “has a while or dirty yellow forehead, without a dark postocular stripe, and without enlarged spines proximally in the spinous portion of the hemipenis” [DIXON et al. 1993: 125]. |
Comment | Distribution: see map in DIXON et al. 1993: 111. Synonymy: Wiest published the description of C. dixoni in his PhD thesis, which was later published again in slighly modified form by Dixon et al. 1993. Entiauspe-Neto & Loebmann 2019 argued that Wiest 1978 constitutes a proper publication and thus has priority over Dixon et al. 1993. Habitat: partly arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). |
Etymology | Named after Latin “fuscus”, meaning dark or dusky. |
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