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Dipsas brevifacies (COPE, 1866)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Short-faced snail eater, Snail-eating Thirst Snake
S: Caracolera de Cara Corta 
SynonymTropidodipsas brevifacies COPE 1866: 127
Dipsadomorus fasciatus BOCOURT 1884: 135
Leptognathus torquatus COPE 1885: 172 (substitute name for D. fasciatus)
Dirosema brevifacies — BOCOURT 1908 (fide VILLA et al. 1988)
Leptognathus brevifacies — WERNER 1910: 280
Sibynomorphus brevifacies — SCHMIDT & ANDREWS 1936 (fide VILLA et al.)
Dipsas brevifacies — PETERS 1960: 38
Dipsas brevifacies — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 86
Dipsas brevifacies — VILLA et al. 1988
Dipsas brevifacies — LINER 1994
Dipsas brevifacies — CAMPBELL 1998
Dipsas brevifacies — LINER 2007
Dipsas brevifacies — WALLACH et al. 2014: 231 
DistributionMexico (Yucatan, Campeche, Quintana Roo), Belize [HR 17: 67], Guatemala

Type locality: Yucatán.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: USNM 24886, male. 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (2425 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentHabitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 
EtymologyNamed after Latin brevis, short, little, small, stunted + Latin facies, shape, face, look; presence, appearance; beauty; also face, visage, countenance . [“...An upper preocular, on one side exceedingly minute, neither attaining the frontals...”]. 
References
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