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    Species Accepted

    Geophis brachycephalus (Cope, 1871)

    Colombian Earth Snake
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Geophis
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

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      Colombian Earth Snake English
      Colubro terricolo costaricano Italian
      Costa Rican Earth Snake English
      Culebra de Tierra Costarricense Spanish
      Gray Earth Snake English
      Korthovedet Jordsnog Danish
      culebra de tierra cabezona Spanish
      Кордильерский геофис Russian

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Köhler, G. (2008). Reptiles of Central America. 2nd Ed. Herpeton-Verlag, 400 Pp.
      Savage, J. M. (2002). The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Herpetofauna Between Two Continents, Between Two Seas. University of Chicago Press, 934 Pp. [Review in Copeia 2003 (1): 205].
      Ray, Julie M. and Patty Ruback. (2015). Updated checklists of snakes for the provinces of Panamá and Panamá Oeste, Republic of Panama. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (2): 168-188.
      Acosta-Chaves, Víctor J.; Gerardo Chaves, Juan G. Abarca, Adrián García-Rodríguez, Federico Bolaños. (2015). A checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Río Macho Biological Station, Provincia de Cartago, Costa Rica. Check List 11 (6): 1784.
      Cope, E. D. (1871). Ninth contribution to the herpetology of tropical America. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 23: 200-224.
      WILSON, L.D. & J.H. TOWNSEND. (2007). A checklist and key to the snakes of the genus Geophis (Squamata: Colubridae: Dipsadinae), with commentary on distribution and conservation. Zootaxa 1395: 1-31.
      http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/search.php?genus=Geophis&species=brachycephalus&submit=Search
      Günther, A. C. L. G. (1885). Reptilia and Batrachia. Biologia Centrali-Américana. Taylor, & Francis, London, 326 Pp. [Published in Parts from 1885-1902; Reprint by the SSAR 1987].
      Köhler, Gunther, Joseph Vargas, Johannes J. Köhler and Milan Vesel´y. (2013). Noteworthy distributional records of amphibians and reptiles from Costa Rica. Herpetological Review 44 (2): 280-283.

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