Starting to fill the gap: first record of Tantilla supracincta (Peters, 1863) (Serpentes: Colubridae) from Colombia

Abstract

Abstract:We report for the first time the occurrence of Tantilla supracincta in Colombia based on a road killed specimen found in the Pacific foothills of the Andes in the department of Antioquia, filling a gap of approximately 870 km in its distribution and extending by 473 m its altitudinal range.

New record of Tantilla alticola (Boulenger, 1903) (Serpentes, Colubridae) for the Central Cordillera in the department of Tolima, Colombia

“…The genus is distributed in a wide latitudinal range from the southeastern and southcentral United States to northern Argentina and Uruguay, with 1 species in Trinidad and Tobago (Wilson 1982, Vera-Pérez et al 2015. Colombia harbors 6 species: T. alticola Boulenger, 1903, T. melanocephala Linnaeus, 1758, T. nigra Boulenger, 1914, T. reticulata Cope, 1860, T. semicincta Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854, and T. supracincta Peters, 1863(Hurtado-Gómez et al 2015, all of which live in the lowlands (less than 1,500 m altitude), although T. alticola and T. melanocephala can also be found in the highlands up to 2,740 m altitude (Wilson and Mata-Silva 2015).…”