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Loxocemus bicolor COPE, 1861

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Higher TaxaLoxocemidae, Henophidia, Pythonoidea, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Mexican Burrowing Python
G: Spitzkopfpython
S: Chatilla 
SynonymLoxocemus bicolor COPE 1861: 77
Loxocemus sumichrasti BOCOURT 1876: 7
Plastoseryx Bronni JAN 1862: 242
Loxocemus bicolor — BOULENGER 1893: 74
Loxocemus sumichrasti — TAYLOR 1939
Loxocemus sumichrasti — SCHMIDT 1947
Loxocemus sumichrasti — ÁLVAREZ DEL TORO & SMITH 1956: 12
Loxocemus bicolor — LINER 1994
Loxocemus bicolor — WALLS 1995
Loxocemus bicolor — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 160
Loxocemus bicolor — MATTISON 2007: 201
Loxocemus bicolor — WALLACH et al. 2014: 398
Loxocemus bicolor — SUNYER & MARTÍNEZ-FONSECA 2023 
DistributionSE Mexico (incl. Chiapas, Oaxaca, Morelos, Michoacan, Jalisco, Guerrero, Nayarit), Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica

Type locality: La Unién, El Salvador  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: lost, USNM 4948 (presumed lost fide McDiarmid et al. 1999). 
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CommentType species: Loxocemus bicolor COPE 1861: 77 is the type species of the genus Loxocemus COPE 1861. 
EtymologyFrom latin words bis and color meaning two colored in allusion to its coloration.

The genus was named after Greek loxos (λοξός), slanting + Greek kemos (κημός), muzzle. ["...Muzzle prominent, obliquely truncate…"]. 
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