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Herpetological Review 36(3): 340; 2005
© 2005 by Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles
TRETANORHINUS MOCQUARDI (Swamp Snake). ECUA-
DOR: PROVINCE OF ESMERALDAS: Atacames (00º52’12”N,
79º50’32”W, 8 m elev), 13 and 25 February 1990, V. Cevallos and
E. Kramer. Universidad San Francisco de Quito & Fundación
Herpetológica G. Orcés, Quito, Ecuador (FHGO-USFQ 121–5,
187; collected at night in water, at a shrimp pond near coastline).
Verified by J.-M. Touzet. The species was known from Panama,
with no records from Colombia (Dunn 1939. Copeia [4]: 212–217;
Peters and Orejas-Miranda 1970. USNM Bull. 297). Uetz (1995–
2005. The EMBL Reptile Database. Online. EMBL Heidelberg.
<http://www.reptile-database.org>) mentioned the species from
Ecuador, citing Almendáriz (1992 [1991]) In Barriga et al. [eds.],
Lista de Vertebrados de Ecuador. Revista Politécnica, Quito XVI
[3]: 89–162); however, the author does not mention the species in
that paper, nor subsequent lists (Coloma et al. 2000–2004. Rep-
tiles de Ecuador. Online. Museo de Zoología, PUCE Quito, Ecua-
dor. <http://www.puce.edu.ec/zoologia/>). First vouchered country
record. Extends known distribution ca. 900 km S from nearest
localities in Panama (Dunn op. cit.).
Submitted by DIEGO F. CISNEROS-HEREDIA, Colegio de
Ciencias Biológicas & Ambientales, Universidad San Francisco de
Quito, Ave. Interoceánica y calle Diego de Robles, Campus
Cumbayá, Edif. Maxwell. Casilla Postal 17-12-841, Quito,
Ecuador (e-mail: diegofrancisco_cisneros@yahoo.com)