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

Geophis laticollaris SMITH, LYNCH & ALTIG, 1965

IUCN Red List - Geophis laticollaris - Data Deficient, DD
iNaturalist logo

Can you confirm these amateur observations of Geophis laticollaris?

Add your own observation of
Geophis laticollaris »

We have no photos, try to find some by Google images search: Google images

Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Widecollar Earth Snake
S: Minadora de Collar Ancho
E: Red Earth Snake [russatus]
S: Minadora de Roja [russatus] 
SynonymGeophis laticollaris SMITH, LYNCH & ALTIG 1965
Geophis sallaei russatus SMITH & WILLIAMS 1966
Geophis russatus — DOWNS 1967: 138
Geophis sallaei — DOWNS 1967: 168
Geophis laticollaris — LINER 1994
Geophis russatus — LINER 1994
Geophis russatus — WILSON & TOWNSEND 2007: 17
Geophis laticollaris — WILSON & TOWNSEND 2007: 13
Geophis laticollaris — WALLACH et al. 2014: 303
Geophis russatus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 305
Geophis laticollaris — PALACIOS-AGUILAR et al. 2022 
DistributionMexico (Oaxaca)

Type locality: Three miles south of Putla, Oaxaca, Mexico.

russatus: Mexico (Oaxaca: Sierra de Miahuatlán); Type locality: La Concepción, near Putla, Oaxaca, México.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: INHS (= UIMNH) 57170, adult female collected 29 June 1964 by R. Altig.
Holotype: INHS (= UIMNH) 61409, adult male collected 25 May 1965 by T. MacDougall [russatus] 
DiagnosisUnfortunately 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 961 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentSynonymy: Geophis russatus was considered as synonym of G. laticollaris by Pavón-Vázquez et al. (2011) and Heimes 2016: 244. This was confirmed by Palacios-Aguilar et al. 2022. Geophis laticollaris was synonymized with G. sallaei by Downs (1967), but later resurrected by Smith & Chiszar (1992) after examining materials acquired subsequent to publication of Downs’ work.

Distribution: see map in BARRAGAN-RESÉNDIZ et al. 2022: 273 (Fig. 5) 
EtymologyNamed after Latin latus, wide, broad; spacious, extensive + Latin collaris, collar, neckband; chain for neck. [“...”]. 
References
  • Barragán-Reséndiz, Lesly Montserrat, Pavón-Vázquez, Carlos J., Cervantes-Burgos, Romina Itzel, Trujano-Ortega, Marysol, Canseco-Márquez, Luis, et al. 2022. A New Species of Snake of the Geophis sieboldi Group (Squamata: Dipsadidae) from Estado de México, Mexico. Herpetologica 78 (4): 268-276 - get paper here
  • Casas-Andreu, G., F.R. Méndez-De la Cruz and X. Aguilar-Miguel. 2004. Anfibios y Reptiles; pp. 375–390, in A.J.M. García-Mendoza, J. Ordoñez and M. Briones-Salas (ed.). Biodiversidad de Oaxaca. Instituto de Biología, UNAM-Fondo Oaxaqueño para la Conservación de la Naturaleza-World Wildlife Fund, México, D. F.
  • 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
  • Heimes, P. 2016. Snakes of Mexico. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 572 pp
  • Lemos-Espinal, J. A., & Smith, G. R. 2025. The diversity and conservation status of amphibians and reptiles from the Mexican biogeographic province of Sierra Madre del Sur. Nature Conservation, 58: 101-127 - get paper here
  • Mata-Silva, Vicente, Jerry D. Johnson, Larry David Wilson and Elí García-Padilla. 2015. The herpetofauna of Oaxaca, Mexico: composition, physiographic distribution, and conservation status. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (1): 6–62 - get paper here
  • Palacios-Aguilar, Ricardo; Víctor H. Colín-Martínez, Salvador Hernández- Rubio, Luis Canseco-Márquez, Adrián Nieto-Montes de Oca & Leticia M. Ochoa-Ochoa 2021. Another case of colour pattern polymorphism in Earth Snakes of the genus Geophis (Dipsadidae) from southern Mexico. Journal of Natural History, 55 (47-48): 2985-2997 - get paper here
  • Smith, H.M. & Chiszar, D. 1992. A second locality for Geophis sallei (Reptilia: Serpentes). Bull. Maryland Herp. Soc. 28: 16–18. <br /> - get paper here
  • Smith, Hobart M. & Williams, Keneth L. 1966. A new snake (Geophis) from México. Journal of the Ohio Herpetological Society 5 (3): 90-92 - get paper here
  • Smith, Hobart M.; Lynch, John D. & Altig, Ronald 1965. New and notworthy herpetozoa from southern Mexico. Natural History Miscellanea (180): 1-4
  • 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=laticollaris

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



Please submit feedback about this entry to the curator