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Loxocemus bicolor COPE, 1861

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Higher TaxaLoxocemidae, Henophidia, Pythonoidea, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Mexican Burrowing Python
G: Spitzkopfpython
S: Chatilla 
SynonymLoxocemus bicolor COPE 1861: 77
Loxocemus sumichrasti BOCOURT 1876: 7
Plastoseryx Bronni JAN 1862: 242
Loxocemus bicolor — BOULENGER 1893: 74
Loxocemus sumichrasti — TAYLOR 1939
Loxocemus sumichrasti — SCHMIDT 1947
Loxocemus sumichrasti — ÁLVAREZ DEL TORO & SMITH 1956: 12
Loxocemus bicolor — LINER 1994
Loxocemus bicolor — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 160
Loxocemus bicolor — MATTISON 2007: 201
Loxocemus bicolor — WALLACH et al. 2014: 398
Loxocemus bicolor — SUNYER & MARTÍNEZ-FONSECA 2023 
DistributionSE Mexico (incl. Chiapas, Oaxaca, Morelos, Michoacan, Jalisco, Guerrero, Nayarit), Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica

Type locality: La Unién, El Salvador  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: lost, USNM 4948 (presumed lost fide McDiarmid et al. 1999). 
Diagnosis 
CommentType species: Loxocemus bicolor COPE 1861: 77 is the type species of the genus Loxocemus COPE 1861. 
EtymologyFrom latin words bis and color meaning two colored in allusion to its coloration. 
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