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Coniophanes bipunctatus (GÜNTHER, 1858)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
SubspeciesConiophanes bipunctatus bipunctatus (GÜNTHER 1858)
Coniophanes bipunctatus biseriatus SMITH 1940 
Common NamesE: Two-spotted Snake
S: Cafetalera Tabaquilla 
SynonymCoronella bipunctatus GÜNTHER 1858
Coniophanes bipunctatus — COPE 1866: 128
Tachymenis bipunctatus — GARMAN 1884: 63
Coniophanes bipunctatus — BAILEY 1939: 24
Coniophanes bipunctatus — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 66
Coniophanes bipunctatus — VILLA et al. 1988
Coniophanes bipunctatus — LINER 1994
Coniophanes bipunctatus — SAVAGE 2002
Coniophanes bipunctatus — MATA-SILVA et al. 2015
Coniophanes bipunctatus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 176
Coniophanes bipunctatus — SUNYER & MARTÍNEZ-FONSECA 2023

Coniophanes bipunctatus bipunctatus (GÜNTHER 1858)
Glaphyrophis pictus JAN 1863: 305
Coniophanes bipunctatus bipunctatus — SMITH 1940
Coniophanes bipunctatus bipunctatus — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970
Coniophanes bipunctatus bipunctatus — LINER 2007

Coniophanes bipunctatus biseriatus SMITH 1940
Coniophanes bipunctatus biseriatus SMITH 1940: 59
Coniophanes bipunctatus biseriatus — LINER 2007 
DistributionS Mexico (Oaxaca, Yucatan, Campeche, Quintana Roo, Veracruz, Puebla), Guatemala, Honduras (elevation 0-1370 m), Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica [HR 32: 278], Panama, El Salvador ?

bipunctatus:

biseriatus: Mexico (Chiapas); Type locality: Palenque, Chiapas.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesType: BMNH 1946.1.9.58 (and possibly additional specimens).
Holotype: USNM 108595 [biseriatus] 
DiagnosisDIAGNOSIS: Among the many striped species of snakes in Central America, this is the only one with a pair of large dark spots on each ventral and the tip of each ventral marked with a small spot


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CommentSynonymy after PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970.

Habitat: aquatic (McCoy 1969). 
EtymologyNamed after the pair of large dark spots on each ventral. 
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