Ocellated Pampas Snake
Tachymenis ocellata Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854
Also calledCobra-Espada-Pampeana (por) · Cobra-Espada-Pintada (por) · Falsa Yarara (spa) · Falsa-Cruzeira (por) · Jararaquinha-Pintada (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
- S Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul), Paraguay, Uruguay,
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 Tachymenis ocellata in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
References
- 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.
- Gallardo, J. M. (1972). Observaciones biologicas sobre una falsa Yarara, Tomodon ocellatus Dumeril, Bibron et Dumeril (Reptilia, Ophidia). Neotropica 18 (56): 57-63.
- 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.
- Müller, & Friedrich. (1881). Zweiter Nachtrag zum Katalog der herpetologischen Sammlung des Basler Museums [1881 printed on paper]. Verh. Naturf. Ges. Basel 7 (2): 166-174.
- 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.