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Tropidodipsas philippii (JAN, 1863)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Philippi’s Snail-Eating Snake
S: Caracolera de Philippi 
SynonymLeptognathus philippii JAN 1863
Leptognathus albocinctus FISCHER 1885: 107
Dipeltophis albocinctus
Tropidodipsas philippii — SMITH & TAYLOR 1945
Tropidodipsas freiae SHANNON & HUMPHREY 1959 (fide SCOTT 1967)
Tropidodipsas occidentala OLIVER 1937
Tropidodipsas philippii — SCOTT 1967
Sibon philippii — KOFRON 1985
Sibon philippii — LINER 1994
Tropidodipsas philippii — WALLACH 1995
Tropidodipsas philippii — WALLACH et al. 2014: 746
Tropidodipsas philippii — MATA-SILVA et al. 2015
Tropidodipsas philippii — GRÜNWALD et al. 2021 
DistributionMexico (Oaxaca, Nayarit, Sinaloa, Colima, Jalisco)

Type locality: Mazatlan, Sinaloa.

occidentala: Colima; Type locality: Colima, Comala.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ZMH Hamburg Museum
Holotype: UMMZ [occidentala] 
Diagnosis 
CommentSynonymy after KOFRON 1985 and WALLACH 1995.

Distribution: See Grünwald et al. 2021: 252 (Fig. 10) for a map. 
EtymologyNamed after Rodolfo Amando Philippi (1808-1904), a German-Chilean zoologist and paleontologist. He left Germany as a young man, ostensibly because he thought he was gravely ill and wanted to end his days in a mild Mediterranean climate. 
References
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  • Fischer, J. G. 1885. Ichthyologische und herpetologische Bemerkungen. V. Herpetologische Bemerkungen. Jahrb. Hamburg. Wiss. Anst. 2: 82-121 - 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
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  • Harvey, Michael B.; Gilson Rivas Fuenmayor, José Rances Caicedo-Portilla, and José Vicente Rueda-Almonacid 2009. Systematics of the Enigmatic Dipsadine Snake Tropidodipsas perijanensis Alemán (Serpentes: Colubridae) and Review of Morphological Characters of Dipsadini. Herpetological Monographs 22 (1): 106-132 - get paper here
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  • Kofron, C.P. 1985. Systematics of the neotropical gastropod-eating snake genera Tropidodipsas and Sibon. Journal of Herpetology 19 (1): 84-92. - get paper here
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  • MONTAÑO-RUVALCABA, CARLOS; MARIA F. REBOLLEDO-VÉLEZ, BRIAN I. CROTHER, LILIAN Y. MARTINEZ-NAVARRO, NATANAEL RIOS-BRICIO & JACOBO REYES-VELASCO. 2021. TROPIDODIPSAS PHILIPPII (Philippi’s Snail-eating Snake). REPRODUCTION. Herpetological Review 52 (3): 677. - get paper here
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  • Sheehy, Coleman M., III, Jeffrey W. Streicher, Christian L. Cox and Jacobo Reyes-Velasco. 2011. Tropidodipsas philippii (Philippi's snail-eating snake) arboreality. Herpetological Review 42 (3): 446-447 - get paper here
  • Smith, Hobart M. & Taylor, Edward H. 1945. An annotated checklist and key to the snakes of Mexico. Bull. US Natl. Mus. (187): iv + 1-239 - 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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