Amazon Coastal House Snake (pallidus)
Dryophylax nattereri (Mikan, 1820)
Also calledCobra-Corre-Campo (por) · Cobra-do-Mato (por) · Corre-Campo (por) · Corredeira (por) · Jararaca-Falsa (por) · Jararaquinha (por) · Northern Coastal House Snake (strigilis) (eng) · Ubicorá f (por)
Dryophylax nattereri, the Amazon coastal house snake or northern coastal house snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae.
- Recorded from
- Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil (Amapá, Bahia, Pernambuco, Paraíba, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro etc), Peru, Venezuela (Cojedes), Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador
- Also published as
- Coluber nattereri Mikan, 1820
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Description
These snakes contain a pattern of 19-19-15 on dorsal scales. These scales are slightly keeled and smooth. They typically have one apical pit, one preocular scale and two postocular scales. Their hemipenis is marginally bilobed with spiculate and papillate short lobes and calyces. There is a distinct conchal process of the prefrontal bone, and the medial maxillary process of the ectopterygoid can be twice as long as the lateral maxillary process. The articulation of the maxilla- ectopterygoid aligns with the palatinopterygoid articulation.
Range & habitat
The distribution od D. marahuaquensis is several countries in South America. It can be found in Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil (Amapa, Bahia, Pernambuco, Paraíba, Minas Gerais), Peru, Venezuela (specifically Cojedes), Colombia, Bolivia, and Ecuador. (Kornacker 1999)
In human culture
Common names include Amazon Coastal House Snake (pallidus), Northern Coastal House Snake (strigilis). In Portuguese, Cobra-Corre-Campo, Cobra-do-Mato, Corre-Campo, Corredeira, Jararaca-Falsa, Jararaquinha and Ubicorá f, are the common names for this species. The name is synonymous with Coluber nattereri, Thermodynastes nattereri, Thermodynastes cf. nattereri and Thermodynastes pallidus.
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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References
- Souza-Costa, C. A., De Mira-Mendes, C. V., Dias, I. R., Silva, K. B., Argolo, A. J. S. and Sole, M. (2020). Squamate reptiles from seasonal semi-deciduous forest remnants in southwestern Bahia, Brazil. Bonn Zoological Bulletin 69: 85-94.
- Bernal, R. (2025). Serpientes de Colombia-Guía de Campo. Serie de Guías Tropicales de Campo. 19: 396 Pp. Conservación Internacional Colombia, Bogotá.
- Gonzalez R. C. et al. (2020). Lista dos Nomes Populares dos Répteis no Brasil – Primeira Versão. Herpetologia Brasileira 9 (2): 121 – 214.
- Gorzula, Stefan, Senaris, & Celsa, J. (1999). In: Contribution to the herpetofauna of the Venezuelan Guayana. I: a data base. Scientia Guaianae, Caracas, No. 8 [1998], 269+ Pp.; ISBN 980-6020-48-0.
- ARAUJO, C. O., CONDEZ, T. H., BOVO, R. P., CENTENO, F. C., & LUIZ, A. M. (2010). Amphibians and reptiles of the Parque Estadual Turístico do Alto Ribeira (PETAR), SP: an Atlantic Forest remnant of Southeastern Brazil. Biota Neotrop. 10(4): 257-.
- Nogueira, Cristiano C.; Antonio J.S. Argôlo, Vanesa Arzamendia, Josué A. Azevedo, Fausto E. Barbo, Renato S. Bérnils, Bruna E. Bolochio, Marcio Borges-Martins, Marcela Brasil-Godinho, Henrique Braz, Marcus A. Buononato, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, Guarino R. Colli, Henrique C. Costa, Francisco L. Franco, Alejandro Giraudo, Rodrigo C. Gonzalez, Thaís Guedes, Marinus S. Hoogmoed, Otavio A.V. Marques, Giovanna G. Montingelli, Paulo Passos, Ana L.C. Prudente, Gilson A. Rivas, Paola M. Sanchez, Filipe C. Serrano, Nelson J. Silva Jr., Christine Strüssmann, João Paulo S. Vieira-Alencar, Hussam Zaher, Ricardo J. Sawaya, Marcio Martins. (2019). Atlas of Brazilian snakes: verified point-locality maps to mitigate the Wallacean shortfall in a megadiverse snake fauna. South American J. Herp. 14 (Special Issue 1):1-274.
From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.