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Urotheca fulviceps (COPE, 1886)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymRhadinaea fulviceps COPE 1886: 279
Liophis pachyurus DUNN 1931: 163
Rhadinaea pachyura fulviceps — DUNN 1944: 492
Rhadinaea pachyura fulviceps — PETERS 1960
Rhadinaea pachyura fulviceps — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 267
Rhadinaea fulviceps — VILLA et al. 1988
Urotheca fulviceps — SAVAGE & CROTHER 1989
Rhadinaea fulviceps — KORNACKER 1999: 131
Urotheca fulviceps — SAVAGE 2002
Urotheca fulviceps — WALLACH et al. 2014: 783 
DistributionCosta Rica, Panama, Ecuador, Colombia (incl. Valle del Cauca), Venezuela (Zulia; KORNACKER 1999)

Type locality: Panama  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: USNM 61187 (original catalog number USNM 14118), probable holotype fide USNM catalog. 
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Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Latin fulvus, tawny, reddish yellow; yellow and Latin -ceps, -headed. [“...Top of head yellowish-brown, quite distinct from the body, and without markings...”]. (from Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., May 2024) 
References
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