Spilotes megalolepis (GÜNTHER, 1865)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Black Chicken Snake, Black Rat Snake G: Scwarzr Hühnerfresser
Synonym	Spilotes megalolepis GÜNTHER 1865: 93 Spilotes megalolepis — BOULENGER 1894: 24 Spilotes megalolepis — WERNER 1913: 22 Spilotes pullatus var. ater STERNFELD 1920 Spilotes megalolepis — ORCES & ALMENDARIZ 1989 Spilotes megalolepis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 684 Spilotes megalolepis — TORRES-CARVAJAL et al. 2019 Spilotes megalolepis — CRUZ-GARCIA et al. 2020
Distribution	W Ecuador (lowlands) Type locality: “South America”
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: BMNH
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Comment	Synonymy: Spilotes megalolepis GÜNTHER 1865 has been resurrected from synonymy with S. pullatus by Orces & Almendariz 1989. Distribution (megalolepis): see map of 5 specimen in Ecuador in Cruz-García et al. 2020: 767 (Fig. 1)
Etymology	Named after the large scales (”lepis”), from Greek μεγάλος (megalos) = big and Greek lepis (λεπίς) = scale.
References	Arteaga, A.; Bustamante, L.; Vieira, J. 2024. Reptiles of Ecuador. Khamai Foundation & Tropical Herping, 1073 pp. - 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 Cruz-García K, Cisneros-Heredia DF, Sánchez-Nivicela JC, Amador L 2020. New records of four reptile species (Lepidosauria, Squamata) from the province of Guayas, southwestern Ecuador. Check List 16(3): 765-772 - get paper here Cruz-García, Keyko & Andrea E. Narváez 2024. Herpetofauna Diversity and Habitat Use Assessment in Two Remnant Forests of Western Ecuador South American Journal of Herpetology Dec 2024 Vol. 33, No. 1: 1-9 - get paper here Günther, A. 1865. Fourth account of new Species of Snakes in the Collection of the British Museum. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) 15: 89-98. - get paper here Narum, K.; Proaño, A. 2023. Natural history notes: Spilotes megalolepis (Large-scaled Ratsnake). Maximum elevation. Herpetological Review 54 (4): 694. Orces V., G. & A. Almendariz 1989. Acerca de la Sistematica de Spilotes megalolepis Gunther (Serpentes-Colubridae). Rev. Politecnica, Vol XIV, No. 2: 69-73. - get paper here Sternfeld, R. 1920. Zur Systematik der Schlangengattung Spilotes. Senckenbergiana, 2: 181-186 - get paper here Torres-Carvajal O, Pazmiño-Otamendi G, Salazar-Valenzuela D. 2019. Reptiles of Ecuador: a resource-rich portal, with a dynamic checklist and photographic guides. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 13 (1): [General Section]: 209–229 (e178) - 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. Werner, F. 1913. Neue oder seltene Reptilien und Frösche des Naturhistorischen Museums in Hamburg. Reptilien der Ostafrika-Expedition der Hamburger Geographischen Gesellschaft 1911/12. Leiter: Dr. E. Obst. Reptilien und Amphibien von Formosa. [these are 3 separate reports in one long article] Jb. Hamb. wiss. Anst., 30 [1912], 2. Beiheft: 1-39, 40-45, 45-51 - get paper here
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