Spilotes

Spilotes pullatus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Subfamily:	Colubrinae
Genus:	Spilotes Wagler, 1830
Synonyms^[1]
Cerastes, Coluber, Dipsas, Herpetodryas, Natrix, Paraphrynonax, Phrynonax, Pseustes

Spilotes is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae. The genus is endemic to the New World.

Geographic range

Species in the genus Spilotes are found in Mexico, Central America, and South America.^[1]

Species

Two species are recognized as being valid.^[1]

Spilotes pullatus (Linnaeus, 1758) - chicken snake, tropical chicken snake, yellow rat snake
Spilotes sulphureus (Wagler, 1824) - yellow-bellied hissing snake, Amazon puffing snake

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Spilotes.

Boulenger GA (1894). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xi + 382 pp. + Plates I-XX. (Genus Spilotes, p. 23).
Wagler J (1830). Natürliches System der AMPHIBIEN, mit vorangehender classification der SÄUGTHIERE und VÖGEL. Ein Beitrag zur vergleichenden Zoologie. Munich, Stuttgart and Tübingen: J.G. Cotta. vi + 354 pp. + one plate. (Spilotes, new genus, p. 179). (in German and Latin).

Taxon identifiers
Spilotes	Wikidata: Q14375702 Wikispecies: Spilotes CoL: 7L2P EoL: 35520 GBIF: 2457193 iNaturalist: 28626 IRMNG: 1304689 ITIS: 209491 NCBI: 186603 Open Tree of Life: 913536 Paleobiology Database: 362495 WoRMS: 1393157