New State Record of Lampropeltis Mexicana (Squamata: Colubridae) for Jalisco and Second Record for Aguascalientes, Mexico
Herpetology Notes, volume 12: 995-998 (2019) (published online on 17 October 2019) New state record of Lampropeltis mexicana (Squamata: Colubridae) for Jalisco and second record for Aguascalientes, Mexico Gustavo Ernesto Quintero-Díaz1,2 and Rubén Alonso Carbajal-Márquez2,3,* The Mexican Kingsnake Lampropeltis mexicana Recently, based on allopatric distributions and unique (Garman, 1884) occurs in eastern parts of the Central combinations of morphological and colour pattern Plateau and adjacent Sierra Madre Oriental in Mexico, characters, Hansen and Salmon (2017) considered where it has been documented from the states of alterna, greeri, leonis, mexicana, ruthveni, and webbi Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, México, and San as species-level taxa, diagnosable based on a range of Luis Potosí; at elevations from 1,194 to 2,438 m (Heimes, discrete characters. In Jalisco, L. greeri and L. ruthveni 2016; Hansen and Salmon, 2017). In Aguascalientes, are present, while in Aguascalientes, L. greeri and L. this species is known from a single female specimen mexicana (sensu stricto) occur, both cases with allopatric (snout–vent length [SVL] = 465 mm; total length [TL] distributions. Lampropeltis greeri is present in elevated = 530 mm; Fig. 2B) found and killed by local people on regions in northern Jalisco and in the western portion of 27 October 2001 at 2200 h, at La Tinajuela, Asientos Aguascalientes, L. mexicana in the far eastern portion (CZUAA-REP-483), in the eastern part of the state of Aguascalientes, and L. ruthveni in central Jalisco. (22.05931°N, 101.91070°W; WGS 84; elevation 2,082 Lampropeltis mexicana is a moderate-sized species of m; Vázquez-Díaz and Quintero-Díaz, 2005; Hansen kingsnake with a maximum TL of 1,156 mm (Hansen and Salmon, 2017).
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