You are here » home › advanced search › search results › Geophis godmani

Geophis godmani BOULENGER, 1894

IUCN Red List - Geophis godmani - Least Concern, LC
iNaturalist logo

Can you confirm these amateur observations of Geophis godmani?

Add your own observation of
Geophis godmani »

Find more photos by Google images search: Google images

Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Godman's Earth Snake 
SynonymGeophis godmani BOULENGER 1894: 322
Catastoma godmani — AMARAL 1929: 192
Geophis godmani — DUNN 1942: 4
Geophis dolichocephalus — TAYLOR 1954 (fide VILLA et al. 1988)
Geophis dolichocephalus — TAYLOR 1954: 686
Geophis godmani — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 119
Geophis godmani — VILLA et al. 1988
Geophis godmani — MYERS 2003
Geophis godmani — WILSON & TOWNSEND 2007: 10
Geophis godmani — WALLACH et al. 2014: 302 
DistributionCosta Rica, Panama (1000-2100 m elevation).

Type locality: Irazú, Costa Rica.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesLectotype: BMNH 1946.1.6.41, an adult female, designated by Downs (1967: 72) ; paralectotypes: BMNH 1946.1.6.40-41, The Natural History Museum, London, collected by F.D. Godman and O. Salvin. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Downs 1967: 72


Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 1420 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
Comment 
EtymologyNamed after the collector, F.D. Godman. 
References
  • Amaral,A. do 1930. Estudos sobre ophidios neotropicos XVIII. Lista remissiva dos ophidios da região neotropica. Mem. Inst. Butantan 4: 126-271 [1929] - get paper here
  • Barrio-Amorós, Cesar Luis, Michelle Quiroz, Cristian Porras-Ramírez, Rene Villanueva-Maldonado, Alejandro Estrada-García, Abel Batista 2023. Amphibians and reptiles encountered during an expedition to Panama. Reptiles & Amphibians 30 (1): e18359 - get paper here
  • Batista, A., Hertz, A., Ponce, M. and Lotzkat, S. 2020. Notes on amphibians and reptiles from western Panama Notes on amphibians and reptiles from western Panama. Herpetology Notes 13: 219-229. - get paper here
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Boulenger, George A. 1894. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. British Mus. (Nat. Hist.), London, xi, 382 pp. - get paper here
  • Downs, F. L. 1967. lntrageneric relations among colubrid snakes of the genus Geophis Wagler. Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan 131: 1-193. - get paper here
  • Dunn, Emmett Reid 1942. New or Noteworthy Snakes from Panama. Notulae Naturae 108:1-8.
  • Köhler, G. 2008. Reptiles of Central America. 2nd Ed. Herpeton-Verlag, 400 pp.
  • Lips K R. Savage J M. 1994. A new fossorial snake of the genus Geophis (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae) from the Cordillera de Talamanca of Costa Rica. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 107 (2): 410-416. - get paper here
  • Myers, C.W. 2003. Rare Snakes—Five New Species from Eastern Panama: Reviews of Northern Atractus and Southern Geophis (Colubridae: Dipsadinae). American Museum Novitates 3391: 1-47 - 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
  • SANTAMARÍA MARTÍNEZ, JERSON ARTURO; JOSÉ MANUEL MORA, JORGE ALPÍZAR RODRÍGUEZ, EMMANUEL RODRÍGUEZ ROJAS, JASDIEL RAMÍREZ ALVARADO & RUTH TORRES MEDINA. 2021. Albinism in a Yellow-bellied Earth Snake (Geophis godmani Boulenger, 1894) (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) from Central Costa Rica. Caribbean Journal of Science 51(1): 14–19. - get paper here
  • Sasa, M., Arias, E., & Chaves, G. 2025. Annotated list of amphibians and reptiles of Costa Rica: The role of the Museum of Zoology in cataloging the country’s herpetological diversity. Revista de Biología Tropical, 73(S2): e64536-e64536 - 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]
  • Solorzano, A. 2004. Serpientes de Costa Rica - Snakes of Costa Rica. Editorial INBio, Costa Rica, 792 pp.
  • Taylor,E.H. 1954. Further studies on the serpents of Costa Rica. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 36: 673-800. - get paper here
  • 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
 
External links  
Is it interesting? Share with others:

As link to this species use URL address:

https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Geophis&species=godmani

without field 'search_param'. Field 'search_param' is used for browsing search result.



Please submit feedback about this entry to the curator