Tropidodipsas fasciata guerreroensis, Alvarez del Toro and Smith, Herpetologica, 12:16, March 6, 1956.
Dugès (1896:480) reported a snake, questionably of this species, from Uruapan, Michoacán. Taylor (1940c) suggested that on geographic grounds Dugès' record might refer to T. f. guerreroensis, which is known definitely only from the type locality. Tropidodipsas occidentala is known from Comala, Colima, and Coalcomán, Michoacán. On zoogeopraphic grounds that species might be found at Uruapan. Since the specimen apparently no longer is extant, the identification cannot be ascertained.
Micrurus fitzingeri fitzingeri (Jan)
Elaps fitzingeri Jan, Rev. Mag. Zool., p. 521, 1858.—México. Type locality restricted to Guanajuato, Guanajuato, México, by Smith and Taylor (1950a:330).
Micrurus fitzingeri fitzingeri, Brown and Smith, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 55:63, June 25, 1942.
Smith and Taylor (1945:174) recorded the species from Zamora, Michoacán. Hobart M. Smith (in litt.) stated that this record was based on a report of Elaps fulvius from Zamora by Dugès (1896:482). Smith guessed that the report was based on a specimen of Micrurus fitzingeri. The specimen has not been seen. Although the species is known from Guanajuato and México, until a specimen is available from Michoacán, the species should not be considered part of the herpetofauna of Michoacán.
GAZETTEER
The localities in Michoacán here listed are those from which specimens were examined as well as other localities mentioned in the text. The localities are arranged alphabetically according to the most definitive word or words in the total name. For example, Lago de Chapala is listed as "Chapala (Lago de)" and Cerro de Tancítaro is listed as "Tancítaro (Cerro de)." Insofar as has been possible, the following information is given for each locality: geographical co-ordinates to the nearest minute of north latitude and west longitude, elevation in meters above mean sea level, a description of its geographical location, type of dominant vegetation, and in some cases comments concerning collecting sites in the vicinity. Distances are in kilometers; all are map (air line) distances, unless otherwise indicated. Many localities visited on mule trips are given as being a certain number of "mule hours" in a general direction from another town or village. In order to reach most of these localities today, one would have to go by mule, and this is the way the muleteers determine their distances. Some of the elevations are taken from maps, but most of them were obtained from one or more readings of altimeters that we carried in the field. The terms used for describing the vegetation are those defined in the section of the natural landscape.
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