Conopsis amphisticha (SMITH & LAUFE, 1945)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Twin-spotted Tolucan Ground Snake S: Toluqueña de Tierra Mexicama
Synonym	Toluca amphisticha SMITH & LAUFE 1945 Toluca amphisticha —SMITH & SMITH 1976 Toluca amphistricha — LINER 1994 Conopsis amphisticha — GOYENECHEA & FLORES-VILLELA 2002 Conopsis amphisticha — WALLACH et al. 2014: 181 Conopsis amphisticha — MATA-SILVA et al. 2015
Distribution	Mexico (Oaxaca, Puebla), elevation 1700-3080 m. Type locality: Xuimygopk, between Ayutla and Cacalotepec, Oaxaca.
Reproduction	ovovivparous
Types	Holotype: USNM 120950
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: This species is characterized by the following combination of characters: divided internasals and prefrontals; dorsal coloration usually of two series of dots on the anterior third and a tessellated pattern of spots afterwards, or a tessellated pattern of spots along body over brown color. Venter is yellowish with paired black dots along the belly. Conopsis amphisticha shares its characteristic dorsal pattern of spots with Conopsis biserialis, with which it can be confused, but their geographic ranges do not overlap.
Comment
References	Casas-Andreu, G., F.R. Méndez-De la Cruz and X. Aguilar-Miguel. 2004. Anfibios y Reptiles; pp. 375–390, in A.J.M. García-Mendoza, J. Ordoñez and M. Briones-Salas (ed.). Biodiversidad de Oaxaca. Instituto de Biología, UNAM-Fondo Oaxaqueño para la Conservación de la Naturaleza-World Wildlife Fund, México, D. F. Flores-Villela, O., Mendoza-Quijano F. & González-Porter, G. 1995. Recopilación de claves para la determinación de amphibios y reptiles de México. Publ. Espec. Mus. Zool. (UNAM), no. 10 Goyenechea, Irene & Flores-Villela, Oscar 2002. Taxonomic status of the snake genera Conopsis and Toluca (Colubridae). Journal of Herpetology 36 (1): 92-95 - get paper here Goyenechea, IRENE & OSCAR FLORES-VILLELA 2006. Taxonomic summary of Conopsis, Günther, 1858 (Serpentes: Colubridae). Zootaxa 1271: 1–27 - get paper here Heimes, P. 2016. Snakes of Mexico. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 572 pp Liner, E.A. 1994. Scientific and common names for the Amphibians and Reptiles of Mexico in English and Spanish. Herpetological Circular 23: 1-113 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 Smith, Hobart M. & Laufe, Leonard E. 1945. Notes on a herpetological collection from Oaxaca. Herpetologica 3 (1): 1-13 - 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.
External links	IUCN Red List https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/395584319332839/ Google images

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