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Pseudoficimia frontalis (COPE, 1864)

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) 
Subspecies 
Common NamesFalse Ficimia 
SynonymToluca frontalis COPE 1864: 167
Pseudoficimia pulchra BOCOURT 1883 (fide COPE 1885)
Ficimia frontalis — GARMAN 1884: 82
Geagras frontalis — COPE 1885: 177
Pseudoficimia pulcherrima TAYLOR & SMITH 1942
Pseudoficimia hiltoni BOGERT & OLIVER 1945: 375
Pseudoficimia pulcherrima — SCHMIDT 1947
Pseudoficimia frontalis — ZWEIFEL 1959
Pseudoficimia frontalis — LINER 1994
Pseudoficimia frontalis — LINER 2007
Pseudoficimia frontalis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 602 
DistributionMexico (Jalisco, Colima, Sinaloa, SW Durango, Nayarit, Jalisco, Guanajuato, Colima, W Michoacán, S México, Morelos, Guerrero, Puebla, Sonora), 0-1100 m elevation.

Type locality: “Colima" [= State, western México].  
Reproductionoviparous. 
TypesLectotype, USNM 31425 (orig. 1363), a 502 mm female (J. Xanthus), designated by Hardy, 1972: 58. 
Diagnosis 
CommentSynonymy: Pseudoficimia hiltoni BOGERT & OLIVER 1945 was synonymized with Pseudoficimia frontalis by HARDY & MCDIARMID 1969.

Type species: Toluca frontalis COPE 1864: 167 is the type species of the genus Pseudoficimia BOCOURT 1883. 
Etymology 
References
  • Bocourt, M. F. 1883. In A. Duméril, M. F. Bocourt, and F. Mocquard, (1870-1909), Etudes sur les reptiles, p. i-xiv, 1-1012. In Recherches Zoologiques pour servir a l'Histoire de Ia Faune de l'Amérique Centrale et du Mexique. Mission Scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amér Imprimerie Impériale, Paris - get paper here
  • Bogert, Charles M.; Oliver, James A. 1945. A preliminary analysis of the herpetofauna of Sonora. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 83 (6): 297-426
  • Castro-Franco, Rubén, María Guasalupe Bustos-Zagal 1994. List of reptiles of Morelos, Mexico, and their distribution in relation to vegetation types. Southwestern Naturalist 39 (2): 171-175 - get paper here
  • Cope, E.D. 1864. Contributions to the herpetology of tropical America. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 16: 166-181. - get paper here
  • Cope, E.D. 1885. Twelfth contribution to the herpetology of tropical America. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 22: 167-194 [1884] - get paper here
  • Enderson, Erik F.; Thomas R. Van Devender, Robert L. Bezy 2014. Amphibians and reptiles of Yécora, Sonora and the Madrean Tropical Zone of the Sierra Madre Occidental in northwestern Mexico. Check List 10 (4): 913-926 - get paper here
  • García, A. & Ceballos, G. 1994. GUIA DE CAMPO DE LOS REPTILES Y ANFIBIOS DE LA COSTA DE JALISCO, MEXICO. FUNDACION ECOLOGICA DE CUIXMALA, A.C. INSTITUTO DE BIOLOGIA, UNAM
  • Garman,Samuel 1884. The reptiles and batrachians of North America. Mem. Mus. comp. Zool, Cambridge (Massachusetts), 8 (3): xxxiv + 185 pp. [1883] [CNAH reprint 10] - get paper here
  • Hardy, L. M. 1970. Intersexuality in a Mexican colubrid snake (Pseudoficimia). Herpetologica 26 (3): 336-343 - get paper here
  • Hardy, L. M. 1972. A systematic revision of the genus Pseudoficimia (Serpentes: Colubridae). Journal of Herpetology 6 (1): 53-69 - get paper here
  • Hardy, L. M. 1975. Comparative morphology and evolutionary relationships of the Colubrid snake genera Pseudoficimia, Ficimia, and Gyalopion. Journal of Herpetology 9 (4): 323-336 - get paper here
  • Hardy, L.M., & McDiarmid, R.W. 1969. The amphibians and reptiles of Sinaloa, Mexico. Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. 18 (3): 39-252. - get paper here
  • Hardy, Laurence M. 1973. Pseudoficimia, P. frontalis. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (146): 1-2 - get paper here
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  • Liner, Ernest A. 2007. A CHECKLIST OF THE AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES OF MEXICO. Louisiana State University Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural Science 80: 1-60 - get paper here
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  • Zweifel, Richard G. 1959. The provenance of reptiles and amphibians collected in Western Mexico by J. J. Major. American Museum Novitates (1949): 1-9 - get paper here
 
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