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tlapapalcoatl.

Headword: 
tlapapalcoatl.
Principal English Translation: 

a "type of snake with bands," described as also having stripes of all colors, running the length of the serpent; it is rare; it is something like the "miauacoatl" (miahuacoatl)

Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 83v, Sahagún, Bernardino de. Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain. Transcribed and translated with notes by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble. 2nd rev. ed. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research / University of Utah Press, 1950–82. Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/83v Accessed 31 October 2025.

Orthographic Variants: 
tlapapalcooatl
themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
Colors
See also: 
tlapapalli.
coatl.