Loxocemus bicolor COPE, 1861 (SQUAMATA: LOXOCEMIDAE): AN ADDITION TO THE HERPETOFAUNA OF THE ESTADO DE MÉXICO, MEXICO

Christoph I. Grünwald; André J. Grünwald-Nuño; Ricardo Palacios Aguilar

doi:10.22201/fc.25942158e.2025.3.1259

Autores/as

Christoph I. Grünwald
André J. Grünwald-Nuño
Ricardo Palacios Aguilar Museo de Zoología "Alfonso L. Herrera", Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7131-5534

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22201/fc.25942158e.2025.3.1259

Palabras clave:

Neotropico, Serpientes, Cuenca del Balsas, Geografía

Resumen

Loxocemus bicolor is the only representative of the snake family Loxocemidae, and is almost continuously distributed along the Pacific lowlands from western Mexico to Costa Rica, entering the semiarid Balsas Basin. Herein we provide the first record of the species for the Balsas Basin in Estado de México. Given this new record, we hypothesize that other species thoroughly distributed in the region may also be present in the state.

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