Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk).
Latest update: December 31st, 2022.
 
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Genus
Loxocemus
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Neotropical Sunbeam Snake
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Spitzkopfpython
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Amerikansk Regnbueslange, Mexicansk Falsk Pyton
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Loxocemus Cope (type species: Loxocemus bicolor Cope 1861) |
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1862 | |
Plastoseryx Jan (type species: Plastoseryx bronni Jan 1862) |
Contents:
1 species, which is not endemic.
Endemism: 0%  100%
Remarks:
Previously assigned to the families
Aniliidae (e.g., Goin, Goin & Zug 1978),
Pythonidae, or
Xenopeltidae.
Now placed in its own, separate family,
Loxocemidae
(e.g., McDowell 1975; Smith, Smith & Sawin 1977; Grazziotin, Zaher, Ferrarezzi, Klaczko, Bonatto & Wilkinson 2007; Pyron, Burbrink & Wiens 2013).
Distribution:
As for the single species.
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Loxocemus bicolor
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Neotropical Sunbeam Snake, Mexican Burrowing Python, Mexican Python, Burrowing Python, New World Python, Neotropical Python
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Spitzkopfpython
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Amerikansk Regnbueslange, Mexicansk Falsk Pyton
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1861 | |
Loxocemus bicolor Cope |
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1862 | |
Plastoseryx bronni Jan (Stimson 1969) |
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1876 | |
Loxocemus sumichrasti Bocourt (Stimson 1969) |
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Loxocemus bicolor sumichrasti Woodbury & Woodbury 1944 |
Remarks:
A record from Panama (Roldan 1985) refer to a misidentified
Nothopsis rugosus (Perez-Santos, Moreno & Gearhart 1993).
Distribution:
Costa Rica,
El Salvador,
Guatemala,
Honduras,
Mexico
(Chiapas,
Colima,
Guerrero,
Jalisco,
Michoacan,
Morelos,
Nayarit,
Oaxaca),
Nicaragua.
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