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HOFFMANNI
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Emmett Reid Dunn examined the
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series of this species in Berlin and London during his tour of European museums as a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow in 192829. His notes list
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as follows:
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<paragraph id="8BD236F2354EC169FCE6FE5AFCE9FE49" blockId="37.[826,992,460,626]" box="[826,992,460,479]" pageId="37" pageNumber="598">Bmnh 61-2-10-3</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BD236F2354EC169FCE6FE7CFCB6FE6B" blockId="37.[826,992,460,626]" box="[826,959,490,509]" pageId="37" pageNumber="598">Berl 1868 (2)</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BD236F2354EC169FCE6FDC9FCCBFDE4" blockId="37.[826,992,460,626]" box="[826,962,607,626]" pageId="37" pageNumber="598">4003 TYPES</paragraph>
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1942 (p. 4)
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stated ... I have examined the type (Berlin 4003)....
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, as pointed out by
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under the
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(Art. 72.4.7) this phraseology does not establish
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as the
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.
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re-examined the
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all from
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and received data for the
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in
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(new number
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1946.1.6.54) purportedly from
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,
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.
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noted that 4106 contained
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to bring the total to
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.
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(1967) concluded that the original description of this species (
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, 1859) was a composite of features from several specimens and chose to designate one of the larger
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,
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an adult female (
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), as the
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.
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, it seems likely that the description and illustration in Peters (1859) was based on one of three small male
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having the supraocular and postocular separated from contact on the left side of the head by an extension of the parietal.
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apparently wished to indicate the maximum size of his new form and so the published measurements were for the largest specimen, not the one illustrated and described.
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,
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&amp;
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(1995) listed the same numbers for the
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as in
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notes and in
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(1967) but indicated there was only
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under number 1869.
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, they list a
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at
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, presumably the missing second specimen of 1869 (but see below). These authors did not realize that
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had selected
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(1870) as the
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.
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Dr Rainer Günther kindly reviewed the Berlin series for us. He reports that it consists of:
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; 1869
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; 1870
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;
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;
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.
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These are the same numbers and number of specimens reported by Downs (1967). All of these snakes were collected by
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, who resided in
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, from 1854 until his premature death in 1859 (Savage, 2002).
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specimen in the
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is from the
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series sent there as a gift or on exchange shortly after the species description as it was catalogued in 1861.
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is unknown how the locality
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became associated with this snake, as there is no locality with that name in
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.
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is an Isla
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in the
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Golfo
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</collectingCounty>
on the
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side of
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.
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know of no snakes in collections from this mangrove- surrounded island.
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<emphasis id="B919EAE0354DC16AFD89FE0AFFD3FE46" italics="true" pageId="38" pageNumber="599">Geophis hoffmanni</emphasis>
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is a common and typical snake of upland
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and is even today found in vacant lots and gardens on the
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lived and collected for the most part at upland sites it seems more than unlikely that he visited Isla
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(1894) and
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notes list it as simply being from
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, leading to the suspicion that the citation of
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was added advertently when this specimen was recatalogued in 1946
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.
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