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Pseudoleptodeira latifasciata (GÜNTHER, 1894)

IUCN Red List - Pseudoleptodeira latifasciata - Least Concern, LC
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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: False Cat-eyed Snake
S: Sapera 
SynonymHypsiglena latifasciata GÜNTHER 1894: 138
Pseudoleptodeira latifasciata — TAYLOR 1938
Hypsiglena latifasciata _ TANNER 1946: 31
Leptodeira latifasciata — DUELLMAN 1958: 91
Pseudoleptodeira latifasciata — LINER 1994
Pseudoleptodeira latifasciata — LINER 2007
Pseudoleptodeira latifasciata — WALLACH et al. 2014: 604 
DistributionMexico (Colima, Oaxaca, Guerrero, Michoacan, Morelos, Puebla, Jalisco)

Type locality: "southern Mexico", restricted to to “Huajintlin, Morelos” by SMITH & TYALOR 1950.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1946.1.2.44 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (genus): Tanner 1946: 31


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CommentType species: Hypsiglena latifasciata GÜNTHER 1894 is the type species of the genus Pseudoleptodeira TAYLOR 1938. 
EtymologyFrom the Latin latifasciātus meaning marked with bands on the side.


The genus was named in allusion to the similar genus Leptodeira. 
References
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  • Castro-Franco, Rubén, María Guasalupe Bustos-Zagal 1994. List of reptiles of Morelos, Mexico, and their distribution in relation to vegetation types. Southwestern Naturalist 39 (2): 171-175 - get paper here
  • Duellman, W.E. 1958. A monographic study of the colubrid snake genus Leptodeira. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 114 (1): 1-152 - get paper here
  • García, A. & Ceballos, G. 1994. GUIA DE CAMPO DE LOS REPTILES Y ANFIBIOS DE LA COSTA DE JALISCO, MEXICO. FUNDACION ECOLOGICA DE CUIXMALA, A.C. INSTITUTO DE BIOLOGIA, UNAM - get paper here
  • Günther, A. C. L. G. 1885. Reptilia and Batrachia. Biologia Centrali-Américana. Taylor, & Francis, London, 326 pp. [published in parts from 1885-1902; reprint by the SSAR 1987] - get paper here
  • Heimes, P. 2016. Snakes of Mexico. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 572 pp
  • Lemos-Espinal JA, Smith GR 2020. A conservation checklist of the herpetofauna of Morelos, with comparisons with adjoining states. ZooKeys 941: 121-144 - get paper here
  • Lemos-Espinal JA, Smith GR, Pierce LJS, Painter CW 2020. The amphibians and reptiles of Colima, Mexico, with a summary of their conservation status. ZooKeys 927: 99-125 - get paper here
  • Liner, Ernest A. 2007. A CHECKLIST OF THE AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES OF MEXICO. Louisiana State University Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural Science 80: 1-60 - 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
  • Mulcahy, D.G. 2007. Molecular systematics of neotropical cat-eyed snakes: a test of the monophyly of Leptodeirini (Colubridae: Dipsadinae) with implications for character evolution and biogeography. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 92: 483–500 - get paper here
  • O’Shea, M. 2018. The Book of Snakes. Ivy Press / Quarto Publishing, London, - 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
  • Schmidt, Karl P.;Shannon, Frederick A. 1947. Notes on amphibians and reptiles of Michoacan, Mexico. Zoological Series of Field Museum of Natural History 31 (9): 63-85
  • Silva-Ayala, E., Díaz-García, J. M., Hernández-Jiménez, C. A., & Romero-Uribe, H. M. 2025. Seasonal variation of amphibian and reptile communities in a deciduous tropical forest in central Mexico. Acta zoológica mexicana, 41 - get paper here
  • Tanner, W. W. 1946. A taxonomic study of the genus Hypsiglena. Great Basin Naturalist 5 (3-4): 25-92 [1944] - get paper here
  • Taylor, E. H. 1938. Notes on the Mexican snakes of the genus Leptodeira, with a proposal of a new snake genus, Pseudoleptodeira. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 25 (15): 315-355 - get paper here
  • Taylor, Edward H. 1939. Some Mexican serpents. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 26 (13): 445-487 - 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.
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