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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. 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1862 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
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
  • Carvajal-Cogollo, J.E.; L.E. Rojas-Murcia. & G. Cárdenas-Arévalo 2020. Reptiles del Caribe colombiano/ Reptiles of the Colombian Caribbean. Tunja: Editorial UPTC, 268 pp. - get paper here
  • Castro-Herrera, F. & Vargas-Salinas, F. 2008. Anfibios y reptiles en el departamento del Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Biota Colombiana 9 (2): 251 - 277 - get paper here
  • Cope, E.D. 1886. Thirteenth contribution to the herpetology of tropical America. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 23: 271-287 [1885] - get paper here
  • Dunn, E. R. 1931. Some Central American snake genera. Copeia 1931 (4): 163 - get paper here
  • Dunn, E.R. 1944. A revision of the Colombian snakes of the genera Leimadophis, Lygophis, Liophis, Rhadinaea, and Pliocercus, with a note on Colombian Coniophanes. Caldasia 2 (10): 479-495 - get paper here
  • González-Maya, José F.; Josue Cardenal-Porras, Sarah A. Wyatt and Juan Mata-Lorenzen 2011. New localities and altitudinal records for the snakes Oxyrhopus petolarius, Spilotes pullatus, and Urotheca fulviceps in Talamanca, Costa Rica. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 82: 1340-1342 - get paper here
  • Knight,J.L. 1988. Notes on Rhadinaea fulviceps COPE (Serpentes: Colubridae) from Ecuador. Journal of Herpetology 22 (3): 344-345 - get paper here
  • Kornacker,P.M. 1999. Checklist and key to the snakes of Venezuela. PaKo-Verlag, Rheinbach, Germany, 270 pp.
  • Manzanilla, Jesús;Mijares-Urrutia, Abraham;Rivero, Ramón 1998. Geographic Distribution. Rhadinaea fulviceps. Herpetological Review 29 (2): 115 - get paper here
  • 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 , J. A. 1960. The snakes of Ecuador; check list and key. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 122: 489-541 - get paper here
  • Ray, Julie M. and Pablo Santana. 2014. Geographic Distribution: Urotheca fulviceps (red-headed glasstail). Herpetological Review 45 (1): 97 - get paper here
  • Ray, Julie M. and Patty Ruback 2015. Updated checklists of snakes for the provinces of Panamá and Panamá Oeste, Republic of Panama. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (2): 168-188 - get paper here
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  • 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
  • Rojas-Runjaic, Natera-Mumaw, M.; Rivero, Edwin E. Infante 2008. Reptilia, Squamata, Colubridae, Urotheca fulviceps: Distribution extension. Check List 4 (4): 431–433 - 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]
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  • Toro-Cardona, Felipe A.; Juan D. Vásquez-Restrepo 2019. Urotheca fulviceps (Cope, 1886) Tierrera. Catálogo de anfibios y reptiles de Colombia 5 (2): 70-75 - get paper here
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  • 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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