Spilotes pullatus

Tropical Rat Snake,
Tropical Chicken Snake,
or Tiger Snake

Linnaeus, 1758

Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
SubOrder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae

Description

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Distribution

Southern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad, Tobago, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Argentina, Bolivia, Guyana, Surinam and French Guiana.

Habitat & Ecology

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Reproduction

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Conservation

Status: Not Listed, but habitat destruction threatens reptiles worldwide.

Other Comments

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References

Savage, J.M. 2002 The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica University of Chicago Press. 934 pp.
Auth, D.L. 1994 Checklist and Bibliography of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Panama, Smithsonian Herptological Information Service. 98.
Villa, J., Wilson, L.D., & J.D. Johnson 1988 Middle American Herpetology. Univ. of Missouri Press, 131 pp.
Frank, N., & E. Ramus 1996 A Complete Guide to Scientific and Common Names of Reptiles and Amphibians of the World. NG Publishing, 337 pp

Other Available References from the EMBL REPTILE DATABASE

Abe etc. (1977) J. Herpetol. 11 (1): 98-100
Orces etc. (1989) Rev. Politecnica, Vol XIV, No. 2: 69-73.
Linnaeus (1758) Systema Naturae.
Laurenti (1768) Specimen medicum. Daudin (1803) Histoire Naturelle, Rept.. Vol. 6.
Merrem (1820) Versuch eines Systems der Amphien I.
Wied-neuwied etc. (1825) Weimar, no. 1, xxii + 612 pp.
Sternfeld (1920) Senckenbergiana, 2: 179-181
Cei (1993) Museo Regionale Sci. Naturale Torino, Monografie 14: 1-949
Bocourt (1873) Etudes sur les reptiles, Mission Scientifique au Mexique.
Amaral (1929) Mem. Inst. Butantan 4: 275-298
Gmelin (1789) In: Linnaeus: Systema Naturae, 13th ed.
Cope (1861) Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 13: 292-306
Günther (1862) Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (3) 9: 124-132
Jan (1863) Elenco Sistematico degli Ofidi.
Boulenger (1894) Catalogue Snakes, Vol. II.
Werner (1903) Abhandl. Königl. Bayer. Akad. Wissensch., Munich, (ser. 2) 22 (2): 343-384
Lancini & Kornacker (1989) Schlangen Venezuela.
Gasc (1980) Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat. Paris 2 (4): 559-598
Almendariz (1991) Rev. Politecnica. XVI (3): 89-162.
Boulenger (1886) Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5) 18: 423-445
Gorzula & Señaris (1999) Contrib. herpetof. Venezuelan Guayana. I.
Taylor (1953) Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 35: 1587-1614
Jauch (1979) Herpetofauna 1 (1): 6-9 Markezich (2002) Herp. Rev. 33 (1): 69-74
Campbell, J. A. 1998. Amphibians and Reptiles of Northern Guatemala, the Yucatán, and Belize [book dingbat]
Garel, T., Matola, S. 1995. A Field Guide to the Snakes of Belize.
Lee, J. C. 1996. The Amphibians and Reptiles of the Yucatán Peninsula.
Lee, J. C. 2000. A Field Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of the Maya World.
Stafford, P. J., Meyer, J. R. 2000. A Guide to the Reptiles of Belize .

Reference written by Mark Tway, Institute for Tropical Ecology and Conservation
Page last updated 2 February, 2003
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