Check List (Feb 2014)

New record of the snake Drymobius chloroticus (Cope, 1886) (Squamata: Colubridae) from Hidalgo, Mexico

  • Luis Badillo-Saldaña,
  • Christian Berriozabal-Islas,
  • Aurelio Ramírez-Bautista

DOI
https://doi.org/10.15560/10.1.199
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 199 – 201

Abstract

Read online Read online Read online

We report the first record of the snake Drymobius chloroticus (Cope 1886) from Hidalgo State, Mexico. This new record is based on a single juvenile male specimen collected in the municipality of Tepehuacán of Guerrero, Hidalgo. This report fills a gap between the closest localities airline 490.1 km2 ca. NW in Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, and airline 42.7 ca. km2 SE in the vicinity Xilitla, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.