Reptilia, Serpentes, Colubridae, Tachymenis Wiegmann, 1836: latitudinal and altitudinal distribution extension in Chile

Gustavo Valenzuela-Dellarossa; Christoph Heibl; Herman Núñez; Juan Ortiz

doi:10.15560/6.1.005

Check List 6(1): 5-6, doi: 10.15560/6.1.005

Reptilia, Serpentes, Colubridae, Tachymenis Wiegmann, 1836: latitudinal and altitudinal distribution extension in Chile

Gustavo Valenzuela-Dellarossa, Herman Núñez, Christoph Heibl, Juan Carlos Ortiz

Corresponding author: Gustavo Valenzuela-Dellarossa ( guvalenz@udec.cl )

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Citation: Valenzuela-Dellarossa G, Heibl C, Núñez H, Ortiz J (2010) Reptilia, Serpentes, Colubridae, Tachymenis Wiegmann, 1836: latitudinal and altitudinal distribution extension in Chile. Check List 6(1): 5-6. https://doi.org/10.15560/6.1.005

Abstract

Observations and pictures of two snakes, Tachymenis peruviana Wiegmann, 1836, and Tachymenis chilensis (Schlegel, 1837), were taken in the Atacama coastal desert, province of Antofagasta, Chile. Furthermore, in the collection of the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Santiago, we found two individuals of T. c. chilensis from Cachapoal and Talca provinces. These records represent a northward extension of the known range of T. c. chilensis along the Andean foothills of more than 180 km.

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