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Geophis downsi SAVAGE, 1981

IUCN Red List - Geophis downsi - Data Deficient, DD
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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Savage's Earth Snake 
SynonymGeophis downsi SAVAGE 1981
Geophis downsi — VILLA et al. 1988
Geophis downsi — WILSON & TOWNSEND 2007: 8
Geophis downsi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 301 
DistributionCosta Rica (extreme eastern Puntarenas), 1100-1200 m elevation

Type locality: Las Cruces Field Station and Botanical Garden, 4 km south of San Vito de Jaba, Canton Corredores, Puntarenas, Costa Rica, 1200 m elevation.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: LACM 130254, adult male, Museum of Natural History of Los Angeles County, collected 14-16 July 1972 by N. J. Scott. 
Diagnosis 
Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. Floyd Leslie Downs (b. 1938), American zoologist. 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Restrepo T J H; Wright J W 1987. A new species of the colubrid snake genus Geophis from Colombia. Journal of Herpetology 21 (3): 191-196 - get paper here
  • Savage J M 1981. A new species of the secretive colubrid snake genus Geophis from Costa Rica. Copeia 1981 (3): 549-553 - get paper here
  • Savage, J.M. 2002. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Herpetofauna Between Two Continents, Between Two Seas. University of Chicago Press, 934 pp. [review in Copeia 2003 (1): 205]
  • Savage, Jay M.; Watling, James I. 2008. Not so rare snakes: a revision of the Geophis sieboldi group (Colubridae: Dipsadinae) in lower Central America and Colombia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 153(3):561-599 - get paper here
  • Solorzano, A. 2004. Serpientes de Costa Rica - Snakes of Costa Rica. Editorial INBio, Costa Rica, 792 pp.
  • 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.
  • WILSON, L.D. & J.H. TOWNSEND 2007. A checklist and key to the snakes of the genus Geophis (Squamata: Colubridae: Dipsadinae), with commentary on distribution and conservation. Zootaxa 1395: 1-31 - get paper here
 
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