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

By

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

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2019-7-5

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

15

Series / Issue

Issue: 4

Pages

555--563

Subjects

Distribution , False Tree Coral Snake , Indio-Maíz , Lowland Wet Forest , Refugio Bartola , Reptile , Río San Juan

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/15.4.555

 

Abstract

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.