SQUAMATA

Mata-Silva, Vicente, García-Padilla, Elí, Rocha, Arturo, Desantis, Dominic L., Johnson, Jerry D., Ramírez-Bautista, Aurelio & Wilson, Larry David, 2021, A Reexamination of the Herpetofauna of Oaxaca, Mexico: Composition Update Physiographic Distribution, and Conservation Commentary, Zootaxa 4996 (2), pp. 201-252 : 207

SQUAMATA

Colubridae

Tantillita lintoni . This species was reported by Aguilar-López et al. (2014), in the Uxpanapa-Chimalapas region of northeastern Oaxaca .

Coniophanes taylori . This species was reported by Grünwald et al. (2016). This snake was indicated to occur at San Miguel Reyes in the municipality of Putla Villa de Guerrero in western Oaxaca.

Geophis laticollaris . This species was reported by Wilson & Townsend (2007). These authors noted that this snake is known only from the type locality, 3 miles south of Putla, Oaxaca, in the northern portion of the Sierra Madre del Sur .

Geophis rostralis . This species was reported by Wilson & Townsend (2007). This taxon is without a type specimen or a type locality, but is thought to occur in the upper elevations of the Sierra Madre del Sur in Oaxaca. Its status is unclear, with some authors treating it as a distinct species ( Bogert & Porter 1966; Campbell et al. 1983), whereas others ( Smith 1959; Downs 1967; Pérez & Smith 1988; Smith & Pérez-Higareda 1991) posit that this taxon is conspecific with G. dubius ( Wilson & Townsend 2007) .

Dipsadidae

Leptodeira uribei . This snake was reported by Siria-Hernández et al. (2005). This species was documented to occur in the municipality of Santa María Huatulco in southern Oaxaca.

Sibon nebulatus . This snake species has been reported at several localities in the state ( Gadow 1905, Heimes 2016, and Clause et al. 2016).

Natricidae

Thamnophis pulchrilatus . This gartersnake species was reported by Rossman et al. (1996). These authors documented the occurrence of this species in the Fossa de Tehuacán in north-central Oaxaca, as indicated in their map 20 .