Colubridae Oppel, 1811

Waltrick, Camilla Spengler & Giasson, Luís Olímpio Menta, 2021, Taxonomic key to the snakes (Squamata: Ophidia) species of the Itajaí Valley, Santa Catarina, Brazil, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 61, pp. 1-15 : 4

Family Colubridae Oppel, 1811

For the Vale do Itajaí the species of the genera Chironius and Spilotes can be recognized by the even number of scale rows ( Amaral, 1929; Dixon et al., 1993, and Palusophis bifussatus by its body coloration and 15 scale rows at mid-body (Montingelli et al., 2019).