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Trimetopon slevini DUNN, 1940

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Slevin's Tropical Ground Snake 
SynonymTrimetopon slevini DUNN 1940: 117
Trimetopon slevini — SLEVIN 1942: 474
Trimetopon slevini — VILLA et al. 1988
Trimetopon slevini — SAVAGE 2002
Trimetopon slevini — WALLACH et al. 2014: 744 
DistributionCosta Rica, Panama

Type locality: Near Boquete, Chiriqui Prov., Panama, elevation 4000 feet  
Reproductionoviparous; one female had 2, another had 1 developed egg (Dunn 1940) 
TypesHolotype: CAS 78938 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: “A Trimetopon with two prefrontals. Allied to T. barbouri Dunn and to T. viquezi Dunn; differs from the first in having more dorsals (17) and more ventrals (153-161); differs from the second in having paired light spots on nape, in lacking a dark streak on scale row 4, in that extension of white neck-color dorsally does not involve seventh upper labial.”


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Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Joseph Richard Slevin (1881-1957), curator of Herpetology at the California Academy of Sciences 1928-1957. 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Dunn,E.R. 1940. New and noteworthy herpetological material from Panamá. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia. 92: 105-122. - get paper here
  • Köhler, G. 2008. Reptiles of Central America. 2nd Ed. Herpeton-Verlag, 400 pp.
  • Mudde, P, & VAN DIJK, M. 1985. Herpetologische waarnemingen in Costa Rica (13). Slangen (Serpentes). Lacerta 43: 176-180. - get paper here
  • Sasa, M., Arias, E., & Chaves, G. 2025. Annotated list of amphibians and reptiles of Costa Rica: The role of the Museum of Zoology in cataloging the country’s herpetological diversity. Revista de Biología Tropical, 73(S2): e64536-e64536 - get paper here
  • Savage, J.M. 2002. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Herpetofauna Between Two Continents, Between Two Seas. University of Chicago Press, 934 pp. [review in Copeia 2003 (1): 205]
  • Slevin, J.R. 1942. Notes on a collection of reptiles from Boquete, Panama, with the description of a new species of Hydromorphus. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 23: 463-480 - get paper here
  • Smokoksa, M. and V. J. Acosta-Chaves 2017. Trimetopon slevini Dunn, 1940. Predation on a velvet worm. Mesoamerican Herpetology 4 (2): 438–441 - get paper here
  • Solorzano, A. 2004. Serpientes de Costa Rica - Snakes of Costa Rica. Editorial INBio, Costa Rica, 792 pp.
  • Taylor,E.H. 1954. Further studies on the serpents of Costa Rica. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 36: 673-800. - 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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