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

By

García-Cobos, Daniela
Corrales-García, Alejandro
Cárdenas-Arévalo, Gladys
Paternina-Hernández, Azarys
Acosta-Galvis, Andrés Rymel

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2020-2-7

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

16

Series / Issue

Issue: 1

Pages

115--119

Subjects

Boyacá , Colubridae , endemic , range extension

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/16.1.115

 

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.