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Geophis latifrontalis GARMAN, 1883

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
SubspeciesGeophis latifrontalis latifrontalis GARMAN 1883
Geophis latifrontalis semiannulatus SMITH 1941 
Common NamesE: Potosí Earth Snake
S: Minadora de San Luis Potosí 
SynonymGeophis latifrontalis GARMAN 1883
Geophis latifrontalis — GARMAN 1887: 129
Atractus latifrontalis — COPE 1896: 1023
Geophis latifrontalis — LINER 1994
Geophis latifrontalis — WILSON & TOWNSEND 2007: 13
Geophis latifrontalis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 303

Geophis latifrontalis semiannulatus SMITH 1941
Geophis semiannulatus SMITH 1941
Geophis semiannulatus — MARTIN 1958
Geophis semiannulatus — DOWNS 1967
Geophis latifrontalis semiannulatus — DIXON & THOMAS 1974
Geophis semiannulatus — VITE-SILVA et al. 2010 
DistributionMexico (Hidalgo, Querétaro, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas, Guanajuato, Mexico, 1100– 2600 m elevation.)

semiannulatus: Mexico (Colima ?, Hidalgo, Tamaulipas)

latifrontalis: Mexico (San Luis Potosi); Type locality: From “fifty miles south of San Luis Potosi, Mexico.”  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MCZ 4538, an adult female, Museum of Comparative Zoology, collected by E. Palmer.
Holotype: MCZ 11422 [semiannulatus] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Downs 1967: 102


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Comment 
EtymologyThe generic name is derived from the Greek words ge(o), meaning "earth" and ophis, meaning "snake." The specific epithet is derived from the Latin words lati, meaning “broad” and -frons, meaning “fore part of anything" (LEMOS-ESPINAL & DIXON 2013). 
References
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  • Dixon, James R. and Julio A. Lemos-Espinal 2010. Amphibians and reptiles of the state of Queretaro, Mexico. Tlalnepantla UNAM, 428 pp.
  • Dixon, James R.;Thomas, Robert A. 1974. A dichromatic population of the snake, Geophis latifrontalis, with comments on the status of Geophis semiannulatus. Journal of Herpetology 8 (3): 271-273 - 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
  • Fernández-Badillo, Leonardo, David R. Aguillón-Gutiérrez, Sharon Yedid Valdez-Rentería, Juan Alfonso Hernández-Melo, Cristian Raùl Olvera Olvera, Francisco Javier Callejas-Jiménez, Melisa Hernández-Ramos, José Carlos Iturbe-Morgado, Ferdinand Torres- 2016. First records for amphibians and reptiles from the municipality of Atotonilco el Grande, Hidalgo, México. Herpetological Review 47 (1): 91-93 - get paper here
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