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Phalotris suspectus
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Dumeril's Diadem Snake

Phalotris suspectus (Amaral, 1924)

Also calledCabeça-Preta (por) · Cabeça-Preta-Meridional (por) · Cabeça-Preta-Pampeana (por) · Cabeça-Preta-da-Areia (por) · Cabeça-Preta-da-Praia (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, Chubut, Córdoba, La Pampa, Río Negro, Salta, San Luis, Santa Fe, Tucumán)
Also published as
Elapomorphus suspectus Amaral, 1924
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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

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Phalotris suspectus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

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References

  • Puorto G. Ferrarezzi H. (1993). Uma nova especie de Phalotris Cope, 1862, com comentarios sobre o grupo Bilineatus (Serpentes: Colubridae: Xenodontinae). Mem. Inst. Butantan 55 (SUPPL. 1): 39-46.
  • Carreira Vidal, & Santiago. (2002). Alimentación de los ofidios de Uruguay. Asoc. Herp. Esp., Monograf. Herp. 6, 127 Pp.
  • Gonzalez R. C. et al. (2020). Lista dos Nomes Populares dos Répteis no Brasil – Primeira Versão. Herpetologia Brasileira 9 (2): 121 – 214.
  • Cabral, & Hugo and Pier Cacciali. (2015). A New Species of Phalotris (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) from the Paraguayan Chaco. Herpetologica 72 (1): 72-77.
  • Arzamendia, V., Bellini, G. P., Ulibarrie, A. A., & Giraudo, A. R. (2026). Fighting biodiversity loss in the Anthropocene: the INALI snake collection as a key resource for natural history in the Global South. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 147(1), Blaf132.
  • Carreira, S.; Brazeiro, A.; Camargo, A.; da Rosa, I.; Canavero, A. & Maneyro, M. (2012). DIVERSITY OF REPTILES OF URUGUAY: KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION GAPS. Bol. Soc. Zool. Uruguay (2a Época) 21 (1-2): 9-29.

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