First record of Tantilla alticola (Boulenger, 1903) (Serpentes: Colubridae) in Cauca state, Colombia, filling distribution gap and notes on natural history

Giovanna Montingelli; Luis Enrique Vera Pérez; Giovanna Montingelli

doi:10.15560/11.2.1578

Check List 11(2): e19176, doi: 10.15560/11.2.1578

First record of Tantilla alticola (Boulenger, 1903) (Serpentes: Colubridae) in Cauca state, Colombia, filling distribution gap and notes on natural history

Luis Enrique Vera Pérez^‡, Jorge Alberto Zúñiga-Baos^‡, Giovanna Gondim Montingelli^§

‡ Universidad del Cauca, Colombia§ Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo., Brazil

Corresponding author: Luis Enrique Vera Pérez ( luis_enrique_vera_perez@fake_email.org )

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Citation: Montingelli G, Vera Pérez L, Montingelli G (2015) First record of Tantilla alticola (Boulenger, 1903) (Serpentes: Colubridae) in Cauca state, Colombia, filling distribution gap and notes on natural history. Check List 11(2): 1578. https://doi.org/10.15560/11.2.1578

Abstract

Three specimens of Tantilla alticola were collected from sector El Cóndor, Parque Nacional Natural Munchique, municipality of El Tambo, Cauca state, Colombia representing the first record in this state and filling the species’ geographical distribution through the western slope of the western cordillera of the Colombian Andes.

Keywords

snakes; Munchique; Cauca; hemipenis