COL·VBVTWspeciesThe Nature Library · Catalogue of Life, 2026
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South American dotted racer
Philodryas pseudomamba Di Pietro, Sánchez, Poljak & Alcalde, 2026
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, Chaco, Córdoba, Corrientes, Entre Ríos, Formosa, Misiones, San Luis, Santa Fe, Santiago del Estero, Tucumán, and Jujuy), Bolivia, Brazil (Bahia, Distrito Federal, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, Paraíba, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul, São
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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 Philodryas pseudomamba in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
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References
- Di Pietro DO, Sánchez J, Poljak S, & Alcalde L. (2026). Morphological and molecular variation reveal cryptic diversity in the racer Philodryas patagoniensis (Girard, 1858) (Squamata: Colubridae). Vertebrate Zoology 76: 93-119.
From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.