Phimophis guerini ( Duméril et al., 1854 )

Nogueira, Cristiano C., Argôlo, Antonio J. S., Arzamendia, Vanesa, Azevedo, Josué A., Barbo, Fausto E., Bérnils, Renato S., Bolochio, Bruna E., Borges-Martins, Marcio, Brasil-Godinho, Marcela, Braz, Henrique, Buononato, Marcus A., Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F., Colli, Guarino R., Costa, Henrique C., Franco, Francisco L., Giraudo, Alejandro, Gonzalez, Rodrigo C., Guedes, Thaís, Hoogmoed, Marinus S., Marques, Otavio A. V., Montingelli, Giovanna G., Passos, Paulo, Prudente, Ana L. C., Rivas, Gilson A., Sanchez, Paola M., Serrano, Filipe C., Silva Jr., Nelson J., Strüssmann, Christine, Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S., Zaher, Hussam, Sawaya, Ricardo J. & Martins, Marcio, 2019, Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna, South American Journal of Herpetology 14 (s 1), pp. 1-274 : 39

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https://doi.org/10.2994/SAJH-D-19-00120.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10063404

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scientific name

Phimophis guerini ( Duméril et al., 1854 )
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Phimophis guerini ( Duméril et al., 1854) View in CoL

Type locality. Bahia, Brazil ( Serié, 1936) .

Distribution. Known from Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay ( Plt. 326A View Plate 326 ). In Brazil, widespread in the Cerrado and Chiquitano Dry Forest, with marginal records in savanna enclaves in Atlantic Forest, Caatinga, Amazonia and Pantanal ( Plt. 326A View Plate 326 ), mostly at intermediate to high elevations ( Plt. 326B View Plate 326 ). Observed in the field in grassland, savanna and disturbed areas ( Sawaya et al., 2008; FranÇa et al., 2008; Valdujo et al., 2009).

Dumeril A. M. C., Bibron G., Dumeril A. 1854. Erpetologie Generale ou Histoire Naturelle Complete des Reptiles. Tome Septieme, Duexieme Partie. Librarie Enclyclopedique de Roret, Paris. DOI

Franca F. G. R., Mesquita D. O., Nogueira C. C., Araujo A. F. B. 2008. Phylogeny and ecology determine morphological structure in a snake assemblage in the Central Brazilian Cerrado. Copeia 2008 1: 23 - 38. DOI

Sawaya R. J., Marques O. A. V., Martins M. 2008. Composition and natural history of a Cerrado snake assemblage at Itirapina, Sao Paulo state, southeastern Brazil. Biota Neotropica 8: 127 - 149. DOI

Serie P. 1936. Nueva enumeracion sistematica y distribucion de los ofidios argentinos. Obra del Cincuentenario del Museo de La Plata 2: 33 - 61.

Valdujo P. H., Nogueira C. C., Baumgarten L., Rodrigues F. H. G., Brandao R. A., Eterovic A., … Marques O. A. V. 2009. Squamate reptiles from Parque Nacional das Emas and surroundings, Cerrado of Central Brazil. Check List 5: 405 - 417. DOI

Gallery Image

Plate 326. Distribution map of Phimophis guerini in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Colubridae

Genus

Phimophis