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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
SubspeciesTropidodipsas fasciata fasciata GÜNTHER 1858
Tropidodipsas fasciata guerreroensis TAYLOR 1939 
Common NamesE: Banded Snail Sucker
E: Guerreran Snail Sucker [guerreroensis]
S: Caracolera Añillada 
SynonymTropidodipsas fasciata GÜNTHER 1858
Tropidodipsas fasciata fasciata GÜNTHER 1858
Leptognathus fasciatus — GARMAN 1884: 12
Leptognathus (Tropidodipsas) subannulatus MÜLLER 1887: 274
Cochliophagus tornieri MÜLLER 1924 (fide HALLERMANN 2007)
Tropidodipsas fasciata subannulata — ÁLVAREZ DEL TORO & SMITH 1956: 14
Tropidodipsas fasciata subannulata — KLUGE 1984
Sibon fasciata fasciata — KOFRON 1985
Sibon fasciata fasciata — KOFRON 1987
Sibon fasciata — LINER 1994
Tropidodipsas fasciata — WALLACH 1995
Sibon fasciata — LEE 2000: 326
Tropidodipsas fasciatus — PERCINO-DANIEL et al. 2013
Tropidodipsas fasciata — MATA-SILVA et al. 2015
Tropidodipsas fasciata — WALLACH et al. 2014: 746
Tropidodipsas fasciata — GRÜNWALD et al. 2021 
DistributionMexico (Chiapas, Guerrero, Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Veracruz, Oaxaca), Guatemala ?

fasciata: Mexico (Campeche, Yucatan, Quintana Roo)

Type locality: Mexico

guerreroensis: Mexico (Pacific slopes, probably in Oaxaca; only known locality: Buena Vista, Guerrero;probable locality, Uruapan, Michoacan, fide ÁLVAREZ DEL TORO & SMITH 1956: 16)  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH (fide Smith & Taylor 1945: 150)
Holotype: ZMB 8162 [Cochliophagus tornieri]
Holotype: FMNH 100070 [guerreroensis] 
DiagnosisDescription (subannulata, adult female): “Total length 553 mm., tail 117 mm., scale rows 17; ventrals 187, caudals 73; anal entire; labials 7-8; eye diameter 2.8 mm., distance from eye to lip 1.4 mm.; scales very feebly keeled, smooth in outer 1 or 2 rows; posterior chinshields about half length of anterior; body slightly compressed;frontal 3.3 mm. wide, 3.8 mm long. Light rings stippled, gray in appearance, one scale in length at midline, two at first scale row, still wider (2 to 4 ventrals) on belly. Dark rings black, no brown evident. Light rings 16 on body, 8 on tail; 9 of these on body broken at middorsal line, only one completely broken ventrally although several others are narrowly complete midventrally; light rings somewhat larger and spaced farther apart anteriorly (13 scale lengths) than posteriorly (9-10 scale lengths).” (ALVAREZ DEL TORO & SMITH 1956) 
CommentSynonymy partly after KOFRON 1985. Sibon fasciata has been synonymized with Sibon fischeri by some authors. Tropidodipsas kidderi, formerly included in the synonymy of T. fasciata, is considered as a subspecies of S. fischeri by KOFRON 1985.

Type species: Tropidodipsas fasciata GÜNTHER 1858 is the type species of the genus Tropidodipsas GÜNTHER 1858. Note, however, that KOFRON 1985 synonymized Tropidodipsas with Sibon, a position which has not been universally accepted.

Diet: snails (Santos et al. 2017 and references therein)

Distribution: not in Jalisco fide CRUZ-SÁENZ et al. 2017. See Grünwald et al. 2021: 252 (Fig. 10) for a map. 
EtymologyThe word Tropidodipsas is Greek and derived from two words, tropido, meaning "keeled" and dipsas, meaning "venomous snake." The specific epithet is derived from the Latin word fasciata, meaning "banded," in reference to the dorsal pattern (LEMOS-ESPINAL & DIXON 2013). 
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