Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Colubridae > Geophis > Geophis brachycephalus

Geophis brachycephalus (Colombian Earth Snake)

Synonyms:

Attributes

Gestation [1]  3 months 19 days
Litter Size [2]  4

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
La Amistad International Park National Park II 541617 Panama, Costa Rica  
Rara Avis Rainforest Reserve 3163 Costa Rica

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru No

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2REPRODUCTIVE ECOLOGY OF DIPSADINE SNAKES, WITH EMPHASIS ON SOUTH AMERICAN SPECIES, LÍGIA PIZZATTO, MAURÍCIO CANTOR, JULIANA LIMA DE OLIVEIRA, OTAVIO A. V. MARQUES, VINICIUS CAPOVILLA, AND MARCIO MARTINS, Herpetologica, 64(2), 2008, 168–179
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0