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First country record of Rhinobothryum bovallii (Andersson, 1916) (Squamata, Colubridae) from Nicaragua

  • José Gabriel Martínez-Fonseca,
  • Julio Loza,
  • Maynor Fernandez,
  • Milton Salazar-Saavedra,
  • Javier Sunyer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.15560/15.4.555
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 4
pp. 555 – 563

Abstract

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We report on the first definite record of the False Tree Coral Snake, Rhinobothryum bovallii (Andersson, 1916), from Nicaragua based on one specimen from the Refugio Bartola, department of Río San Juan, southeastern Nicaragua. The newly found specimen narrows a 510 km distributional gap between occurrences from near the Honduran–Nicaraguan border and the nearest occurrence in Costa Rica.