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Distribution Notes
Reptilia: Squamata (snakes) Family Colubridae Leptophis ahaetulla (Linnaeus, 1758). MEXICO: YUCATÁN: Municipio de Yaxcabá, ca. 1.9 km (airline distance) S of Libre Unión (20.690244°N, -88.812646°W; WGS 84); elev. 23 m; 14 July 2015; Rubén A. Carbajal-Márquez, Christian M. García-Balderas, Tania Ramírez-Valverde, and Pablo M. Beutelspacher-García. The snake was found dead on a road through tropical deciduous forest at 1300 h (Fig. 1). A photo voucher is deposited at the San Diego Natural History Museum (SDSNH_HerpPC_05359). This voucher represents a new municipality record and the second confirmed locality from the state of Yucatán, extending the distribution ca. 128.5 km (airline distance) SW of 3.2 km SE of Colonia Yucatán, Tizimín, Yucatán (Torres-Solís et al., 2017).
Fig. 1. A road-killed adult of Leptophis ahaetulla (SDSNH_HerpPC_05359) found at Libre Unión, Yucatán, Mexico. ' © Pablo M. Beutelspacher-García
Acknowledgments.––We thank Bradford Hollingsworth for providing the photo voucher number and Pablo M. Beutelspacher-García for field assistance. Literature Cited Torres-Solís, M.A., P. E. Nahuat-Cervera and J. A. Ortíz-Medina. 2017. Distribution Notes. First record of Leptophis ahaetulla (Linnaeus, 1758) (Squamata: Colubridae) from the state of Yucatán, Mexico. Mesoamerican Herpetology 4: 199–200.
Rubén Alonso Carbajal-Márquez1,2 José Rogelio Cedeño-Vázquez1, Christian M. García-Balderas1, and Tania Ramírez-Valverde1 El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Unidad Chetumal. Departamento de Sistemática y Ecología Acuática Av. Centenario Km 5.5, 77014, Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico. E-mail:
[email protected] (RACM, Corresponding author)
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Conservación de la Biodiversidad del Centro de México, A.C., Andador Torre de Marfil No. 100, C.P. 20229, Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Mexico.
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