{{Short description|Genus of snakes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Spilotes pullatus mexicanus.jpg | image_caption = ''Spilotes pullatus'' | taxon = Spilotes | authority = Wagler, 1830 | subdivision_ranks = Species | synonyms = ''Cerastes, Coluber, Dipsas, Herpetodryas, Natrix, Paraphrynonax, Phrynonax, Pseustes'' | synonyms_ref =<ref name="RDB"/> }}
'''''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.<ref name="RDB">{{EMBL genus|genus=Spilotes}}.</ref>
==Species== Two species are recognized as being valid.<ref name="RDB"/>
*''Spilotes pullatus'' {{small|(Linnaeus, 1758)}} - chicken snake, tropical chicken snake, yellow rat snake *''Spilotes sulphureus'' {{small|(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''.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== *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).
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Category:Spilotes Category:Snake genera Category:Taxa named by Johann Georg Wagler
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