Check List 16(1): 115-119, doi: 10.15560/16.1.115
First record of the goo-eater snake, Geophis nigroalbus Boulenger, 1908 (Serpentes, Dipsadidae), in the Magdalena Valley, Cordillera Oriental of Colombia
expand article infoDaniela García-Cobos, Alejandro Corrales-García§, Gladys Cárdenas-Arévalo|, Azarys Paternina-Hernández|, Andrés Rymel Acosta-Galvis
‡ Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Villa de Leyva, Colombia§ Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia| Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
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Abstract

Geophis nigroalbus Boulenger, 1908 is a fossorial and secretive colubrid snake endemic to the western Andes of Colombia. Here we report this species for the first time in the Cordillera Oriental in Middle Magdalena Valley. We expand the known distribution of G. nigroalbus 183 km east of its original range.

Keywords
Boyacá, Colubridae, endemic, range extension