First record of the goo-eater snake, Geophis nigroalbus Boulenger, 1908 (Serpentes, Dipsadidae), in the Magdalena Valley, Cordillera Oriental of Colombia

2020/02/05 by Daniela García‐Cobos, Alejandro Corrales-García, Gladys Cárdenas-Arévalo +2 · 1 voice
Environmental Science · Psychology · #Amphibian and Reptile Biology #Animal and Plant Science Education #Species Distribution and Climate Change

paper · pdf · doi:10.15560/16.1.115

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Abstract

Geophis nigroalbus Boulenger, 1908 is a fossorial and secretive colubrid snake endemic to the western Andes of Colombia. Here we report this species for the first time in the Cordillera Oriental in Middle Magdalena Valley. We expand the known distribution of G. nigroalbus 183 km east of its original range.

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