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Adelphostigma occipitalis
Fig. 26. Luna, Ugalde, Guimarães, 2025 (CC BY 4.0) · Plazi / Biodiversity Literature Repository. Found by name on iNaturalist, Wikimedia Commons and in the open-access papers that described the species (Plazi); click a picture for its credit and licence.

Adelphostigma occipitalis

Adelphostigma occipitalis (Jan, 1863)

Also calledCobra-Capim (por) · Cobra-Corredeira (por) · Cobra-Rainha (por) · Cobra-do-Capim (por) · Cobra-do-Folhiço (por) · Corre-Campo (por) · Corredeira-Pintada (por) · Corredeira-do-Campo (por) · Corredeirinha (por) · Jararaquinha (por)

This species is in the Catalogue of Life but not yet in the 2023 GBIF backbone or on iNaturalist: most likely it was described, or split from another species, very recently. What is known so far is below.

Recorded from
NE Peru southeastwards through Bolivia (Beni) and Paraguay to N Argentina (Córdoba, Santiago del Estero, Tucumán, Salta, Formosa, Chaco, Corrientes), S Brazil (Rondonia, Pará [HR 35: 83], Amazonas, Sergipe, S Ceará, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Piauí, Paraíba), Uruguay
Also published as
Dromicus (Lygophis) wuchereri Günther, 1863; Dromicus miolepis Boettger, 1891; Enicognathus occipitalis Jan, 1863
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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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References

  • Rocha, Wáldima Alves da, & Ana Lúcia da Costa Prudente. (2010). The Snake Assemblage of Parque Nacional de Sete Cidades State of Piauí, Brazil. South American Journal of Herpetology 5 (2): 132-142.
  • CATENAZZI, A., LEHR, E., & VON MAY, R. (2013). The amphibians and reptiles of Manu National Park and its buffer zone, Amazon basin and eastern slopes of the Andes, Peru. Biota Neotropica 13 (4): 269-283.
  • Oliveira, Jane C.F.; Rodrigo Castellari Gonzalez; Paulo Passos; Davor Vrcibradic & Carlos Frederico Duarte Rocha. (2020). Non-Avian Reptiles of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: status of knowledge and commented list. Pap. Avulsos Zool. 60: E20206024.
  • Garda, A.A.; T.B. Costa; C.R. Santos-Silva; D.O. Mesquita; R.G. Faria; B.M. Conceição; I.R.S. Silva; A.S. Ferreira; S.M. Rocha; C.N.S. Palmeira; R. Rodrigues; S.F. Ferrari; S. Torquato. (2013). Herpetofauna of protected areas in the Caatinga I: Raso da Catarina Ecological Station (Bahia, Brazil). Check List 9 (2):405-414.
  • Gonzalez R. C. et al. (2020). Lista dos Nomes Populares dos Répteis no Brasil – Primeira Versão. Herpetologia Brasileira 9 (2): 121 – 214.
  • Rodrigues, Jefter Barbosa; Samara Cíntia Alves Gama, Gentil Alves Pereira Filho, and Frederico Gustavo Rodrigues França. (2015). Composition and Ecological Aspects of a Snake Assemblage on the Savanna Enclave of the Atlantic Forest of the Guaribas Biological Reserve in Northeastern Brazil. South American J. Herp. 10 (3): 1-8.

From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.