Geophis hoffmanni (Peters)

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 : 10-11

19. Geophis hoffmanni (Peters)

Colobognathus Hoffmanni Peters 1859: 276 . E (lapoides) Hoffmanni : Jan 1862: 21.

Geophis hoffmanni: Boulenger 1894: 319 .

Catastoma hoffmanni: Amaral 1929: 192 .

Geophis hoffmani: Dunn 1942: 4 . Lapsus .

Geophis bartholomewi: Brattstrom & Howell 1954: 120 .

Geophis acutirostris: Taylor 1954: 691 .

Syntypes. Nine, Zoologisches Museum, Berlin (ZMB) 1868–1870 (five specimens), 4003, 4106 (two specimens), and The Natural History Museum, London (BMNH) 1946.1.6.54, collected by Dr. Hoffmann. Downs (1967: 155) designated ZMB 1870, an adult female, as the lectotype.

Type­locality. “ Costa Rica.”

Distribution. Central and eastern Honduras south through eastern Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and central Panama, and possibly into Colombia, 18­670 m elevation.

Species group. sieboldi ( Downs 1967) .

Systematic references.— Peters (1859), Brattstrom and Howell (1954), Taylor (1954), Downs (1967), Savage (2002), Townsend (2006).

Remarks. Downs (1967: 158) placed G. acutirostris Taylor in the synonymy of G. hoffmanni , an arrangement later supported by Savage (2002). In the same work ( Downs (1967: 158–159), Geophis bartholomewi Brattstrom & Howell was also synonymized with G. hoffmanni .