Philodryas aestiva ( 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 : 35

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10063316

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scientific name

Philodryas aestiva ( Duméril et al., 1854 )
status

 

Philodryas aestiva ( Duméril et al., 1854) View in CoL

Type locality. Santa Catarina, Brazil .

Distribution. Known from the southern portion of South America, in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay ( Plt. 295A View Plate 295 ). In Brazil, widespread in the southern portion of the Atlantic Forest, Pampas Grasslands, Araucaria Forest, and Cerrado, with marginal isolated records in Pantanal and upland areas in the Caatinga ( Plt. 295A View Plate 295 ). Recorded mostly in low areas in the southern part of the range, and in intermediate to high elevation areas near its northern limits ( Plt. 295B View Plate 295 ). Observed in the field in grassland and savanna ( Vaz-Silva et al., 2007; Ghizoni-Jr. et al., 2009; Valdujo et al., 2009; Freitas et al., 2012).

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

Freitas M. A., Franca D. P. F., Graboski R., Uhlig V., Verissimo D. 2012. Notes on the conservation status, geographic distribution and ecology of Bothrops muriciensis Ferrarezzi & Freire, 2001 (Serpentes, Viperidae). North-Western Journal of Zoology 8: 338 - 343.

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

Vaz-Silva W., Guedes A. G., Azevedo-Silva P. L., Gontijo F. F., Barbosa R. S., Aloisio G. R., Oliveira F. C. G. 2007. Herpetofauna, Espora hydroelectric power plant, state of Goias, Brazil. Check List 3: 338 - 345. DOI

Gallery Image

Plate 295. Distribution map of Philodryas aestiva 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

Philodryas