| Higher Taxa | Colubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Peters' Earth Snake
S: Minadora de Peters |
| Synonym | Geophis petersi BOULENGER 1894: 321
Catastoma petersii — AMARAL 1929: 192
Geophis petersi — DUELLMAN 1961: 98
Geophis petersii — LINER 1994
Geophis petersii — WILSON & TOWNSEND 2007: 16
Geophis petersii — WALLACH et al. 2014: 304 |
| Distribution | Mexico (Distrito Federal, Michoacan, Jalisco, Guerrero), 1800-2000 m elevation.
Type locality: City of Mexico, Mexico.
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Lectotype: BMNH 1946.1.6.31, a male, designated by Downs (1967: 164). Paralectotype: BMNH 1946.1.6.32, The Natural History Museum, London, collected by Doorman. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis. Downs 1967: 166
Coloration: Downs 1967: 167. |
| Comment | |
| Etymology | Named after Wilhelm Peters (1815-1883), German herpetologist. |
| 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
- 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
- Carmona-Torres, Fahd Henrry and Adriana J. González Hernández. 2014. Geographic Distribution: Geophis petersii (Peter's earth snake). Herpetological Review 45 (2): 285 - 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
- Duellman, W.E. 1961. The amphibians and reptiles of Michoacan, Mexico. Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. 15 (1) 148 pp. - get paper here
- Heimes, P. 2016. Snakes of Mexico. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 572 pp
- Lemos-Espinal JA, Smith GR 2020. A conservation checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Mexico City, with comparisons with adjoining states. ZooKeys 951: 109-131 - get paper here
- Leyte-Manrique, Adrian; Christian Berriozabal-Islas, Vicente Mata-Silva, and Juan Pablo Morales-Castorena 2018. Herpetofaunal diversity in Área Natural Protegida Las Musas, Guanajuato, Mexico. Mesoamerican Herpetology 5 (1): 122–136 - get paper here
- Muñoz-Nolasco, Francisco Javier; Daniel Cruz-Sáenz, Oscar Jair Rodríguez-Ruvalcaba and Isaac Enrique Terrones-Ferreiro 2015. Notes on the Herpetofauna of Western Mexico 12: Herpetofauna of a Temperate Forest in Mazamitla, Southeastern Jalisco, Mexico. Bull. Chicago Herp. Soc. 50 (4):45-50 - get paper here
- Palacios-Aguilar, Ricardo & OSCAR FLORES-VILLELA 2018. An updated checklist of the herpetofauna from Guerrero, Mexico. Zootaxa 4422 (1): 1-24 - 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
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