Geophis downsi: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Colubridae
- Genus
- Geophis
- Species
- Geophis downsi
- Scientific Name
- Geophis downsi
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Geophis downsi
Geophis downsi, also known as the Savage's earth snake, is a snake of the colubrid family. It is endemic to Costa Rica and only known from its type locality, Las Cruces Biological Station in the Puntarenas Province. It is named after Floyd Leslie Downs.
Only one specimen collected from under leaf litter in premontane rainforest is known. No further specimens were found during a study on leaf-litter fauna of the area in 2010–2012. There are no known threats to this species that was found in a private reserve.
...Geophis downsi in languages:
- English
- Savage's Earth Snake
Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Geophis annuliferus
- Geophis anocularis
- Geophis bellus
- Geophis betaniensis
- Geophis bicolor
- Geophis blanchardi
- Geophis brachycephalus
- Geophis cancellatus
- Geophis cansecoi
- Geophis carinosus
- Geophis chalybeus
- Geophis championi
- Geophis damiani
- Geophis downsi
- Geophis dubius
- Geophis duellmani
- Geophis dugesii
- Geophis dunni
- Geophis fulvoguttatus
- Geophis godmani
- Geophis hoffmanni
- Geophis immaculatus
- Geophis incomptus
- Geophis isthmicus
- Geophis juarezi
- Geophis juliai
- Geophis laticinctus
- Geophis laticollaris
- Geophis latifrontalis
- Geophis lorancai
- Geophis maculiferus
- Geophis mutitorques
- Geophis nasalis
- Geophis nephodrymus
- Geophis nigroalbus
- Geophis nigrocinctus
- Geophis occabus
- Geophis omiltemanus
- Geophis petersii
- Geophis pyburni
- Geophis rhodogaster
- Geophis rostralis
- Geophis ruthveni
- Geophis sallaei
- Geophis sanniolus
- Geophis sartorii
- Geophis semidoliatus
- Geophis sieboldi
- Geophis talamancae
- Geophis tarascae
- Geophis tectus
- Geophis turbidus
- Geophis zeledoni