Geophis blanchardi Taylor & Smith

Wilson, Larry David & Townsend, Josiah H., 2007, A checklist and key to the snakes of the genus Geophis (Squamata: Colubridae: Dipsadinae), with commentary on distribution and conservation, Zootaxa 1395, pp. 1-31 : 6

5. Geophis blanchardi Taylor & Smith

Geophis blanchardi Taylor & Smith 1939: 245 .

Holotype. Field Museum of Natural History ( FMNH) 100037, an adult female collected 14 August 1936 by E. H. Taylor.

Type­locality. Around two miles south of Acultzingo, Veracruz, Mexico.

Distribution. Known from the vicinity of the type locality in the Veracruz, Mexico around 2300 m elevation, and adjacent parts of Puebla. Also recorded from the Sierra Mazateca in Oaxaca, from 2240–2510 m elevation.

Species group. latifrontalis ( Downs 1967) .

Systematic references. Taylor & Smith (1939), Downs (1967).

Remarks. The presence of G. blanchardi in the area of Puebla adjacent to the type locality was recently confirmed ( Canseco­Márquez and Austin 2005), and this species was also recently reported from a cloud forest locality in northern Oaxaca around 70 km south of the type locality ( Canseco­Márquez et al. 2004).