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    Species Accepted

    Geophis zeledoni Taylor, 1954

    Dark-bellied Earth Snake

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      4 results
      Colubro verme ventrescuro Italian
      Dark-bellied Earth Snake English
      Dark-bellied Worm Snake English
      Finca Zeledón Earth Snake English

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      12 results
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      Beolens, B., & Michael Watkins, a. M. G. (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA.
      Taylor, E. H. (1954). Further studies on the serpents of Costa Rica. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 36: 673-800.
      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.
      Lips K R. Savage J M. (1994). A new fossorial snake of the genus Geophis (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae) from the Cordillera de Talamanca of Costa Rica. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 107 (2): 410-416.
      Restrepo T J H, & Wright J W. (1987). A new species of the colubrid snake genus Geophis from Colombia. Journal of Herpetology 21 (3): 191-196.
      Solorzano, A. (2004). Serpientes de Costa Rica - Snakes of Costa Rica. Editorial INBio, Costa Rica, 792 Pp.
      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.
      Savage, Jay M.; Watling, James I. (2008). Not so rare snakes: a revision of the Geophis sieboldi group (Colubridae: Dipsadinae) in lower Central America and Colombia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 153(3):561-599.
      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].

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