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Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk).
Latest update: December 29th, 2023.


Taxonomy of the family Colubridae
Bibliography of the genus Spilotes
Biodiversity of the family Colubridae








Genus
Spilotes

Chicken Snakes

Hühnerfressern

Hønsesnoge

1830 Spilotes Wagler (type species: Cerastes coronatus Laurenti 1788)
1843 Pseustes Fitzinger (type species: Dipsas dieperinkii Schlegel 1837; syn. Jadin, Burbrink, Rivas, Vitt, Barrio-Amoros & Guralnick 2014)
1843 Thamnobius Fitzinger (type species: Coluber poecilostoma Wied 1824; syn. Jadin, Burbrink, Rivas, Vitt, Barrio-Amoros & Guralnick 2014)
1863 Agriotes Jan (type species: Herpetodryas incertus Jan 1863; syn. Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970)
1922 Paraphrynonax Lutz & Mello (type species: Paraphrynonax versicolor Lutz & Mello 1922; syn. Jadin, Burbrink, Rivas, Vitt, Barrio-Amoros & Guralnick 2014)
Contents: 1 species, of which 1 (33.3%) is endemic.
Endemism: 0% 100%
Distribution: Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil (Acre, Alagoas, Amapa, Amazonas, Bahia, Ceara, Distrito Federal, Espirito Santo, Goias, Maranhao, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Para [incl. Marajo Island], Paraiba, Parana, Pernambuco, Piaui, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul, Rondonia, Roraima, Santa Catarina, Sao Paulo [incl. Sao Sebastiao], Sergipe, Tocantins), Colombia (incl. Gorgona Island), Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico (Campeche, Chiapas, Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatan), Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Surinam, Trinidad & Tobago (Tobago, Trinidad), Venezuela (incl. Margarita).

Spilotes megalolepis

Ecuadorian Chicken Snake, Tropical Chicken Snake

Ecuadorianische Hühnerfreßer

Ecuadoriansk Hønsesnog

1865 Spilotes megalolepis Günther

Remarks: Previously regarded as a synonym of pullatus (e.g., Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970). Regarded herein as a separate species, following Orcés & Almendáriz (1989) and others (e.g., Almendáriz 1992; Wallach, Williams & Boundy 2014; Cruz-García, Cisneros-Heredia, Sánchez-Nivicela & Amador 2020).
Distribution: Ecuador.





Spilotes pullatus

Common Chicken Snake, Tiger Tree Snake, Tropical Tree Snake, Thunder and Lightning Snake, (Tiger Rat Snake, Yellow Rat Snake, Black-and-Yellow Rat Snake)

Gewöhnliche Hühnerfreßer

Almindelig Hønsesnog

1758 Coluber pullatus Linnaeus
Spilotes pullatus Wagler 1830
1768 Cerastes mexicanus Laurenti
Spilotes pullatus mexicanus Amaral 1929
1788 Cerastes coronatus Laurenti (Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970)
1788 Coluber novae Hispaniae Gmelin [unavailable name] (Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970)
Coluber novae-hispaniae Boulenger 1894 [first binomial use]
1790 Coluber variabilis Merrem (Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970)
1803 Coluber plutonius Daudin (Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970)
1820 Coluber Caninana Merrem (Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970)
1825 Coluber variabilis Kuhlii Wied (Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970)
1861 Spilotes pullatus auribundus Cope (Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970)
1862 Spilotes Salvini Günther (Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970)
1863 Herpetodryas incertus Jan (Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970)
1888 Spilotes pullatus anomalepis Bocourt
1903 Spilotes microlepis Werner (Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970)
1920 Spilotes pullatus ater Sternfeld (Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970)
1929 Spilotes pullatus argusiformis Amaral
1929 Spilotes pullatus maculatus Amaral

Other common names:
mexicanus: Mexican Chicken Snake, Tiger Rat Snake
pullatus: Tropical Chicken Snake
Remarks: Previously included megalolepis.
Distribution: Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil (Acre, Alagoas, Amapa, Amazonas, Bahia, Ceara, Distrito Federal, Espirito Santo, Goias, Maranhao, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Para [incl. Marajo Island], Paraiba, Parana, Pernambuco, Piaui, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul, Rondonia, Roraima, Santa Catarina, Sao Paulo [incl. Sao Sebastiao], Sergipe, Tocantins), Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico (Campeche, Chiapas, Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatan), Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Surinam, Trinidad & Tobago (Tobago, Trinidad), Venezuela (incl. Isla Margarita).


Spilotes sulphureus

Yellow-bellied Puffing Snake, Amazon Puffing Snake, Yellow-throated Puffing Snake, Black-tailed Golden Snake, Giant Bird Snake

Gelbbauch-Vogelnatter

Gulbuget Fuglesnog

1824 Natrix sulphurea Wagler
Phrynonax sulphureus Amaral 1929
Pseustes sulphureus Brongersma 1937
Spilotes sulphureus Jadin, Burbrink, Rivas, Vitt, Barrio-Amoros & Guralnick 2014
1824 Coluber poecilostoma Wied
Phrynonax sulphureus poecilostoma Amaral 1929
Pseustes sulphureus poecilostoma Brongersma 1937
1837 Dipsas dieperinkii Schlegel
1903 Phrynonax faucherei Mocquard (Hoge & Romano 1970)
1922 Paraphrynonax versicolor Lutz & Mello (Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970)

Remarks: Records from Goias (e.g., Andrade, Santos-Almeida & Reis-Dias 2017) refer to a locality in Tocantins (Costa & Bérnils 2018).
Distribution: Bolivia, Brazil (Acre, Alagoas, Amapa, Amazonas, Bahia, Ceara, Espirito Santo, Maranhao, Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, Para, Paraiba, Rio de Janeiro, Rondonia, Sergipe, Tocantins), Colombia (incl. Gorgona Island), Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Surinam, Trinidad & Tobago (Trinidad), Venezuela.