Tantilla melanocephala. Second province record for Corrientes, Argentina. Geographic Distribution

SCHAEFER E. F.; ÁLVAREZ B. B.

HERPETOLOGICAL REVIEW

Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAR), Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, P.O. Box 208118, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8118, USA.

Lugar: New Haven, Connecticut, USA.; Año: 2000 vol. 31 p. 115 - 115

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TANTILLA MELANOCEPHALA. ARGENTINA: CORRIENTES: SANTO TOMÉ DEPARTMENT: Estancia San Pedro (28°09´S, S6°42´W). 27 December 1997. R. H. Aguirre and E. F. Schaefer. Herpetological collection of Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Corrientes, Argentina (UNNEC 6763, a female 231 mm SVL, 59 mm TL). Verified by A. Giraudo. Second province record with precise locality; extends range ea. 128 km airline east from the previous record in Mburucuyá National Park (Montanelli and Alvarez 1998, Herpetol. Rev. 29:179). Species was reported as ranging from Central America to northem Argentina (Peters and Orejas Miranda 1970, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 297:295). In Argentina, it was reported without voucher specimens from Chaco, Corrientes, and Misiones provinces (Koslowsky 1898, Rev. Mus. La Plata 8:197, Serié P; 1921,Ann. Soc. Científ. Argentina 92: 165, Serié P; 1936, Int. Mus. Univ. Nac. La Plata. Obra Cincuent.; Abalos and Mischis 1975, Bol. Acad. Nac. Cien. Córdoba 5I[l-2]: 72), and with a voucher in Entre Ríos province (Vuoto 1998, Mus. Cienc. Nat. y Antrop. "Prof. Antonio Serrano" Paraná, Entre Ríos, Argentina. Serie Vertebrados: Los Reptiles [6]: 12 pp.).