Check List 16(5): 1153-1158, doi: 10.15560/16.5.1153
First continental record of Tantilla vermiformis Hallowell, 1861 (Squamata, Colubridae) for Honduras
Cristopher Alberto Antúnez-Fonseca‡§, Josué Ramos-Galdamez|, Omar Eduardo Jiménez- Córdova|, Larry David Wilson‡¶‡ Centro Zamorano de Biodiversidad, Tegucigalpa, Honduras§ Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras en el Valle de Sula, Cortés, Honduras| Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras¶ Unaffiliated, Homestead, United States of America
Corresponding author: Cristopher Alberto Antúnez-Fonseca ( cristopher.antunez@unah.edu.hn ) Academic editor: Raul Fernandes Dantas Sales © Cristopher Alberto Antúnez-Fonseca, Josué Ramos-Galdamez, Omar Eduardo Jiménez- Córdova, Larry David Wilson. 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:
Antúnez-Fonseca CA, Ramos-Galdamez J, Jiménez-Córdova OE, Wilson LD (2020) First continental record of Tantilla vermiformis Hallowell, 1861 (Squamata, Colubridae) for Honduras. Check List 16(5): 1153-1158. https://doi.org/10.15560/16.5.1153 |  |
Abstract
Here we present the first continental record of Tantilla vermiformis Hallowell, 1861 for Honduras. This species is confined almost exclusively to dry and arid lowland forest and is considered as a priority one species in the conservation priority list of endemic species of Central America. This record is the second for the country, after that from Isla Exposición, and represents a northeastern extension of 120 km. The next nearest record to the north-northwest is 250 km distant at Lago Ilopango, in El Salvador, and that to the southeast is 130 km away in the municipality of Chinandega, in Nicaragua.
Keywords
Arid forest, Centipede Snake, distribution, morphology, reptile, southeastern Honduras