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Thamnophis pulchrilatus (COPE, 1885)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Natricinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Yellow-throated gartersnake
S: Jarretera Mexicana del Altiplano 
SynonymEutaenia pulchrilatus COPE 1885: 174
Eutaenia pulchrilatus — COPE 1900: 1062
Thamnophis cyrtopsis pulchrilatus — WEBB 1980
Thamnophis cyrtopsis pulchrilatus — WEBB 1984
Thamnophis pulchrilatus — ROSSMAN et al. 1996: 232
Thamnophis pulchrilatus – LINER 2007
Thamnophis pulchrilatus – DIXON & LEMOS-ESPINAL 2010
Thamnophis pulchrilatus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 724 
DistributionMexico (Quéretaro, Durango, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, Jalisco, Nayarit, Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Guanajuato, Michoacan, Puebla, Aguascalientes, Veracruz)

Type locality: “locality uncertain, but probably Guanajuato”.  
Reproductionovoviviparous. 
TypesHolotype: USNM 9899 (A. Dugès). 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1254 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentSynonymy: This species was variously considered as a species or as a synonym of T. cyrtopsis or eques

Distribution: spotty distribution in Mexico. See map 20 in Rossman 1996: 233. Erroneously not listed for Oaxaca by MATA-SILVA et al. 2015.

Sympatry: Rossman (1992, ASIH meeting abstract, cited in Rossman et al. 1996: 234) demonstrated that pulchrilatus occurs either sympatrically or parapatrically with T. c. cyrtopsis in Durango and Tamaulipas, and with T. c. collaris in Jalisco, Nayarit, Oaxaca, and Queretaro (in addition to Guanajuato and Michoacan), without intergrading with either subspecies of T. cyrtopsis, consequently, he raised T. pulchrilatus to species status. 
EtymologyPresumably named after Latin “pulcher” = beautiful and Latin “-latus” = bearing or carrying, most likely referring to the contrasting striped pattern. 
References
  • Carbajal-Márquez, Rubén A. and Gustavo E. Quintero-Díaz 2016. The Herpetofauna of Aguascalientes, México. Revista Mexicana de Herpetología 2(1):
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  • Cope, E.D. 1885. Twelfth contribution to the herpetology of tropical America. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 22: 167-194 [1884] - get paper here
  • Cope, E.D. 1900. The crocodilians, lizards and snakes of North America. Ann. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. 1898: 153-1270 - get paper here
  • Cruz-Elizalde R, Ramírez-Bautista A, Pineda-López R, Mata-Silva V, DeSantis DL, García-Padilla E, Johnson JD, Rocha A, Fucsko LA, Wilson LD. 2022. The herpetofauna of Querétaro, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation status. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 16(1) [General Section]: 148–192 (e308) - get paper here
  • Dixon, James R. and Julio A. Lemos-Espinal 2010. Amphibians and reptiles of the state of Queretaro, Mexico. Tlalnepantla UNAM, 428 pp.
  • Fernández-Badillo, L., J. L. Jiménez-Villegas, G. T. González-Bonilla, N. Morales-Capellán, A. H. Tepango-Benítez, M. B. Ramírez-Cruz, and D. A. Hernández-Silva. 2017. Thamnophis pulchrilatus (Cope, 1885). Mexico, Hidalgo. Mesoamerican Herpetology 4(4): 966–967 - get paper here
  • Fernández-Badillo, Leonardo, Cristián R. Olvera-Olvera, Sharon Y. Valdez-Rentería, Ferdinand Torres-Ángeles and Irene Goyenechea. 2016. New records of Thamnophis pulchrilatus (Squamata: Natricidae) from the state of Hidalgo, Mexico. Mesoamerican Herpetology 3 (2): 519-523 - get paper here
  • Fraustros-Sandoval, Armando de Jesús; Aldo Dávalos-Martínez, Verónica Carolina Rosas-Espinoza, Ana Luisa Santiago-Pérez, Paulino Ponce-Campos, Eliezer Iñiguez-Ochoa 2019. First record of the predation on Bell's False Brook Salamander Isthmura belli (Gray, 1850) by the Yellow-throated Gartersnake Thamnophis pulchrilatus (Cope, 1885) in Western Mexico. Herpetology Notes 12: 721-723 - get paper here
  • GARCÍA-PADILLA, ELÍ; IVÁN VILLALOBOS- JUÁREZ & DAVID LAZCANO 2024. APUNTES SOBRE LA PRESENCIA DE LA VÍBORA DE CASCABEL DE LAS ROCAS TAMAULIPECA (CROTALUS MORULUS) EN TAMAULIPAS Biología y Sociedad 7 (13): 22-37
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  • Torres-Hernández, LA, Ramírez-Bautista A, Cruz-Elizalde R, Hernández-Salinas U, Berriozabal-Islas C, DeSantis DL, Johnson JD, Rocha A, García-Padilla E, Mata-Silva V, Fucsko LA, and Wilson LD. 2021. The herpetofauna of Veracruz, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation status. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 15(2) [General Section]: 72–155 - get paper here
  • Valdez-Lares, R.; R. Muñiz-Martínez; E.Gadsden; G. Aguirre-León; G. Castañeda-Gaytán; R. Gonzalez-Trápaga 2013. Checklist of amphibians and reptiles of the state of Durango, México. Check List 9 (4):714-724 - get paper here
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  • Woolrich-Piña, Guillermo A, Paulino Ponce-Campos, Jesús Loc-Barragán, Juan Pablo Ramírez-Silva, Vicente Mata-Silva, Jerry D. Johnson, Elí García-Padilla and Larry David Wilson. 2016. The herpetofauna of Nayarit, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation status. Mesoamerican Herpetology 3 (2): 376-448 - get paper here
 
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