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Urotheca multilineata (PETERS, 1863)

IUCN Red List - Urotheca multilineata - Least Concern, LC
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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymDromicus multilineatus PETERS 1863: 279
Rhadinaea lateristriga multilineata — DUNN 1944: 493
Urotheca lateristriga multilineata — ROZE 1964
Urotheca lateristriga multilineata — TEST et al. 1966
Rhadinaea lateristriga multilineata — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 266
Urotheca multilineata — SAVAGE & CROTHER 1989
Rhadinaea multilineata — LANCINI & KORNACKER 1989
Rhadinaea multilineata — KORNACKER 1999: 131
Urotheca multilineata — WALLACH et al. 2014: 783 
DistributionVenezuela

Type locality: “Brasilien, wahrscheinlich in der Provinz Sao Paulo”
Type locality: va. A: “Venezuela (Puerto Cabello und Caracas) “ (see comment)  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesLectotype: ZMB 2108, designated by C.W. Myers 1974: 190; Syntypes: ZMB 2108, 4062, 4582 
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CommentDistribution: not in Colombia fide Bernal (2025). Dunn 1944 restricted the type locality of the species to “var. A.” He considered var. B. from “Bogota” [Colombia]to represent lateristriga. var. B: (fide Dunn 1944, Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970, BAUER et al. 1995). 
EtymologyNamed after Latin multi, many things (pl.); much; many and Latin lineata, lined. [“...Wie bei der vorigen Art gebt hier eine gelbe Linie von dem Rostrale durch die Supralabialia, welche auf die unterste Reihe der Schuppen übergeht und sich erst am Ende des Schwanzes verläuft. Eine zweite gelbe Linie, welche etwas wellenförmig geschwungen ist, geht von dem Rostrale über das Supraorbitale, Parietale und die Temporalia und verläuft auf der vierten oberen Schuppenreihe und der Hälfte der angrenzenden bis nahe ans Schwanzende, nachdem sie sich auf dem Nacken zu einem gelben Fleck ausgedehnt hat. Zwischen diesen beiden Flecken befindet sich noch ein ähnlicher auf der Mitte des Nackens...“]. (from Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., May 2024) 
References
  • Bauer, A.M.; Günther,R. & Klipfel,M. 1995. The herpetological contributions of Wilhelm C.H. Peters (1815-1883). SSAR Facsimile Reprints in Herpetology, 714 pp.
  • Bernal, R. 2025. Serpientes de Colombia-Guía de Campo. Serie de Guías Tropicales de Campo. 19: 396 pp. Conservación Internacional Colombia, Bogotá - get paper here
  • Kornacker,P.M. 1999. Checklist and key to the snakes of Venezuela. PaKo-Verlag, Rheinbach, Germany, 270 pp.
  • Lancini,A.R. & Kornacker,P.M. 1989. Die Schlangen von Venezuela. Armitano Editores C.A., Caracas, 1-381
  • Natera-Mumaw, Marco; Luis Felipe Esqueda-González & Manuel Castelaín-Fernández 2015. Atlas Serpientes de Venezuela. Santiago de Chile, Dimacofi Negocios Avanzados S.A., 456 pp. - get paper here
  • Pérez-Santos,C. & Moreno, A.G. 1988. Ofidios de Colombia. Museo reegionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, Monographie VI, 517 pp.
  • Peters, James A.; Donoso-Barros, Roberto & Orejas-Miranda, Braulio 1970. Catalogue of the Neotropical Squamata: Part I Snakes. Bull. US Natl. Mus. 297: 347 pp. - get paper here
  • Peters, W. 1863. Über einige neue oder weniger bekannte Schlangenarten des zoologischen Museums zu Berlin. Monatsb. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1863: 272-289. - get paper here
  • RIVAS, GILSON A.; CÉSAR R. MOLINA, GABRIEL N. UGUETO, TITO R. BARROS, CÉSAR L. BAR- RIO-AMORÓS & PHILIPPE J. R. KOK 2012. Reptiles of Venezuela: an updated and commented checklist. Zootaxa 3211: 1–64 - get paper here
  • Roze, Janis A 1964. The snakes of the Leimadophis-Urotheca-Liophis complex from Parque Nacional Henri Pitter (Rancho Grande), Venezuela, with a description of a new genus and species. Senckenbergiana Biologica 45 (3/5): 533-542
  • Savage,J.M. & Crother,B.I. 1989. The status of Pliocercus and Urotheca (Serpentes: Colubridae), with a review of included species of coral snake mimics. Zool. J. Linnean Soc. 95: 335-362 - get paper here
  • Señaris, J. Celsa; María Matilde Aristeguieta Padrón, Haidy Rojas Gil y Fernando J. M. Rojas-Runjaic 2018. Guía ilustrada de los anfibios y reptiles del valle de Caracas, Venezuela. Ediciones IVIC, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC). Caracas, Venezuela. 348 pp.
  • Test, Frederic H.;Sexton, Owen J.;Heatwole, Harold 1966. Reptiles of Rancho Grande and vicinity, Estado Aragua, Venezuela. Miscellaneous publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (128): 1-63 - 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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