Snakes of
Mexico  
Neotropical Sunbeam Snake
(Loxocemidae)  

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Checklist
General remarks: The list includes only formally described species. Newly discovered, but still unnamed species are excluded. However, unnamed species or species unassigned to species level are included, if they are the only representatives of their genus in the region. Species counts exclude extinct and introduced species. Doubtful records, typically older voucher specimens of uncertain origin, have been excluded if considered questionable, as are records based on sources considered unreliable or controversial.
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Snakes (Serpentes)
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Species
References
 Family Loxocemidae (Neotropical Sunbeam Snake)
Genus Loxocemus (Neotropical Sunbeam Snake)
 
Loxocemus bicolor

Neotropical Sunbeam Snake

Alvarado-Diaz, Suazo-Ortuno, Wilson & Medina-Aguilar 2013 Alvarez del Toro & Smith 1956 Alvarez del Toro 1982 Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Camarillo 1996 Castro-Franco & Bustos-Zagal 1994 Chavez-Avila, Casas-Andreu, Garcia-Aguayo, Cifuentes-Lemus & Cupul-Magana 2015 Cruz-Saenz, Guerrero-Vazquez, Lazcano & Tellez-Lopez 2009 Cruz-Saenz, Munoz-Nolasco, Mata-Silva, Johnson, Garcia-Padilla & Wilson 2017 Davis & Smith 1953 Duellman 1958 [as L. sumichrasti] Duellman 1965 Flores-Villela 1993 Heimes 2016 Holman 1964 Johnson 1990 Johnson, Mata-Silva, Garcia-Padilla & Wilson 2015 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2020 Lemos-Espinal, Smith, Pierce & Painter 2020 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Martin-Regalado, Gomez-Ugalde & Cisneros-Palacios 2011 Mata-Silva, Garcia-Padilla, Rocha, DeSantis, Johnson, Ramirez-Bautista & Wilson 2021 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & Garcia-Padilla 2015 McDiarmid, Campbell & Toure 1999 Palacios-Aguilar & Flores-Villela 2018 Percino-Daniel, Cruz-Ocana, Pozo-Ventura & Velazquez-Velazquez 2013 Perez-Ramos, Riva & Uribe-Pena 2000 Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970 Ramirez-Bautista, Flores-Villela & Casas-Andreu 1982 Reyes-Velasco, Grunwald, Jones & Ahumada-Carrillo 2020 Rioja-Paradela, Carrillo-Reyes, Castaneda & Lopez 2013 Smith & Taylor 1945 Stimson 1969 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Pina, Ponce-Campos, Loc-Barragan, Ramirez-Silva, Mata-Silva, Johnson, Garcia-Padilla & Wilson 2016 Zweifel 1959