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Rhinocheilus antonii DUGÈS, 1886

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Lampropeltini, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymRhinocheilus antonii DUGÈS 1886
Rhinocheilus antonii antonii — SMITH & TAYLOR 1945: 120
Rhinocheilus lecontei antoni — ZWEIFEL & NORRIS 1955
Rhinocheilus lecontei antoni — FUGLER & DIXON 1961
Rhinocheilus lecontei antonii — HARDY 1969: 195
Rhinocheilus lecontei antonii — WEBB 1984
Rhinocheilus lecontei antonii — MEHRTENS 1987: 201
Rhinocheilus antonii — SMITH et al. 2004
Rhinocheilus antonii — LEMOS-ESPINAL et al. 2004: 210
Rhinocheilus lecontei antonii — FLORES-VILLELA et al. 2010
Rhinocheilus antonii — WILSON et al. 2013
Rhinocheilus lecontei antonii — FLORES-VILLELA et al. 2016
Rhinocheilus lecontei antonii — HEIMES 2016
Rhinocheilus lecontei — WOOLRICH-PIÑA et al. 2016
Rhinocheilus antonii — JOHNSON et al. 2017 
DistributionMexico (Sonora ?, Nayarit)

Type locality: San Blas near Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico (probably in error and actually San BIas, Nayarit, Mexico).  
Reproductionoviparous. 
TypesHolotype: MDUG (Museo Alfredo Duges, Guanajuato, Mexico), juvenile female, collector unknown 
DiagnosisDEFINITION. A subspecies with usually 20 or fewer large black body blotches, with white centered scales on the lateral surface. The bands are separated by narrow red and white interspaces, which generally have more red dorsally and more white laterally. The venter is white mottled with black, with the edges of the primary blotches extending laterally to the edges of the caudals. At midbody the interspaces are normally one-third the length of the body blotches. (Medica 1975) 
CommentSubspecies: The species status of antonii is contested. Dahn et al. 2018 don’t even mention it. See also Rhinocheilus lecontei.

Distribution: not in Sonora fide Lemos-Espinal et al. 2019 although Heimes 2016 mentions it for S Sonora. Not in Sinaloa (Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2020). 
EtymologyNamed after Prof. Antoine L. Dels. 
References
  • Dugès, A. 1886. Sur le Rhinocheilus antonii. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 23: 290–291 - get paper here
  • FLORES-VILLELA, OSCAR; CÉSAR A. RÍOS-MUÑOZ, GLORIA E. MAGAÑA-COTA & NÉSTOR L. QUEZADAS-TAPIA 2016. Alfredo Dugès’ type specimens of amphibians and reptiles revisited. Zootaxa 4092 (1): 033–054 - get paper here
  • FLORES-VILLELA, OSCAR; VICTOR HUGO REYNOSO & GLORIA MAGAÑA-COTA 2010. More notes on Alfredo Dugès’ names for Mexican reptilian taxa. [Chalinocnemis, Spasmocnemis, Sceloporus westphalii nomina nuda]. Zootaxa 2600: 66–68 - get paper here
  • Fugler, Charles M.;Dixon, James R. 1961. Notes on the herpetofauna of the El Dorado Area of Sinaloa, Mexico. Publications of the Museum, Michigan State University, Biological Series 2 (1): 1-24
  • 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
  • Johnson, J. D., L. D. Wilson, V. Mata-Silva, E. García-Padilla, and D. L. DeSantis. 2017. The endemic herpetofauna of Mexico: organisms of global significance in severe peril. Mesoamerican Herpetology 4(3): 544–620 - get paper here
  • Lemos-Espinal, J.A., Smith, H.M., Chiszar, D. & Woolrich-Piña, G. 2004. Snakes from Chihuahua and adjacent states of Mexico. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 39(11), 206–213 - get paper here
  • Manier, M.K. 2004. Geographic variation in the Long-nosed Snake, Rhinocheilus lecontei (Colubridae): Beyond the subspecies debate. Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society 83(1): 65-85 - get paper here
  • Mehrtens, J.M. 1987. Living snakes of the world in color. Sterling Publ. Co., hic., New York, NY: 480 pp.
  • Smith, H.M., J.A. Lemos-Espinal & D. Chiszar 2004. The Status of Rhinocheilus antonii Dugès (Reptilia: Serpentes) Bull. Maryland Herpetol. Soc., 40(4): 175-178. - get paper here
  • Smith, Hobart M. & Taylor, Edward H. 1945. An annotated checklist and key to the snakes of Mexico. Bull. US Natl. Mus. (187): iv + 1-239 - get paper here
  • Ukuwela, K.D.B., de Silva, A., Sivaruban, A. et al. 2022. Diversity, distribution, and natural history of the marine snakes of Sri Lanka. Marine Biodiversity 52, 24 (2022) - get paper here
  • Webb, R.G. 1984. Herpetogeography in the Mazatlán-Durango Region of the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico. Vetrebrate Ecology and Systematics - A ribute to Henry S. Fitch; Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, Lawrence, pp. 217-241
  • Wilson, Larry David; Vicente Mata-Silva, Jerry D. Johnson 2013. A conservation reassessment of the reptiles of Mexico based on the EVS measure. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 7 (1): 1–47 - get paper here
  • Woolrich-Piña, Guillermo A, Paulino Ponce-Campos, Jesús Loc-Barragán, Juan Pablo Ramírez-Silva, Vicente Mata-Silva, Jerry D. Johnson, Elí García-Padilla and Larry David Wilson. 2016. The herpetofauna of Nayarit, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation status. Mesoamerican Herpetology 3 (2): 376-448 - get paper here
  • Zweifel,R.G. and Norris,K.S. 1955. Contributions to the herpetology of Sonora, Mexico:Descriptions of new subspecies of snakes (Micruroides euryxanthus and Lampropeltis getulus) and miscellaneous collecting notes. American Midland Naturalist 54: 230-249 - get paper here
 
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