Check List 14(6): 1047-1052, doi: 10.15560/14.6.1047
The first country record of the Mexican Blind Snake, Anomalepis mexicanus Jan, 1860 (Serpentes, Anomalepididae), in Colombia
expand article infoJuliett M. González-Carvajal ‡, Guido Fabian Medina-Rangel§, Luis Eduardo Rojas-Murcia|
‡ Laboratory of Vertebrates Biology, Science Faculty, Universidade Estadual de Centro-Oeste (UNICENTRO)-Paraná, Brazil., Paraná, Brazil§ Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia| Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Boyacá, Colombia

Corresponding author: Guido Fabian Medina-Rangel ( guidofabianmedina@gmail.com )

Academic editor: Sebastian Lotzkat
© 2018 Juliett M. González-Carvajal , Guido Fabian Medina-Rangel, Luis Eduardo Rojas-Murcia.
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation: González J, Medina-Rangel GF, Rojas-Murcia LE (2018) The first country record of the Mexican Blind Snake, Anomalepis mexicanus Jan, 1860 (Serpentes, Anomalepididae), in Colombia. Check List 14(6): 1047-1052. https://doi.org/10.15560/14.6.1047
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Abstract

We report the first Colombian record of the Blind Snake Anomalepis mexicanus Jan, 1860, based on a single specimen from Cantagallo municipality, department of Bolívar. Our new record fills a large gap and extends this species’ geographical distribution by approximately 630 km in a straight line east-southeast from its nearest previously known Panamanian locality, and approximately 1295 km in a straight-line north-northeast from its nearest previously known Peruvian locality. 

Keywords
Cantagallo; department of Bolívar; distribution; dry forest; range extension; Serranía de San Lucas; South America