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Mesotes strigatus
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.

Coastal House Snake

Mesotes strigatus (Günther, 1858)

Also calledCobra-Espada (por) · Corre-Campo (por) · Corre-Campo-Lisa (por) · Corredeira (por) · Corredeira-Comum (por) · Corredeira-Grande (por) · Corredeira-Lisa (por) · Urutu (por) · Urutu-Amarelo (por) · Urutu-Preto (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
Argentina (Buenos Aires, Entre Rios, Corrientes, Misiones), Uruguay, Paraguay, S/SE Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul, Roraima, Pará, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo)
Also published as
Mesotes obtrusus var. plataensis Jan, 1863; Tachymenis strigatus Cope, 1887; Tomodon strigatus Günther, 1858
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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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In the stacks

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Every page naming Mesotes strigatus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

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References

  • 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.
  • Monteiro Winkler, Fábio José, Liz Magalhães Waltenberg, Patrícia Almeida-Santos, Denise Souza do Nascimento, Davor Vrcibradic and Monique Van Sluys. (2011). New records of anuran prey for Thamnodynastes strigatus (Günther, 1858) (Serpentes: Colubridae) in a high-elevation area of southeast Brazil. Herpetology Notes 4: 123-124.
  • Gonzalez R. C. et al. (2020). Lista dos Nomes Populares dos Répteis no Brasil – Primeira Versão. Herpetologia Brasileira 9 (2): 121 – 214.
  • Bellini, G. P., & Vanesa Arzamendia and Alejandro Raúl Giraudo. (2019). Reproductive life history of snakes in temperate regions: what are the differences between oviparous and viviparous species? Amphibia-Reptilia 40 (3): 291–303.
  • Harrington, Sean M; Jordyn M de Haan, Lindsey Shapiro, Sara Ruane. (2018). Habits and characteristics of arboreal snakes worldwide: arboreality constrains body size but does not affect lineage diversification. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 125 (1): 61–71.
  • Freiberg, M. A. (1982). Snakes of South America. T.F.H. Publications, Neptune City, NJ, 189 Pp.

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