La Villa's Slug-eating Snake
Dipsas lavillai (Scrocchi, Porto & Rey, 1993)
Also calledDormideira (por)
First described in: Scrocchi G. Porto M. Rey L. Descripcion de una especie nueva y situacion del genero Sibynomorphus (Serpentes: Colubridae) en la Argentina.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution. Known from Argentina, Bolívia, Brazil, and Paraguay, mostly in Chaco (Plt. 198 A). In Brazil, known from a single record in the Urucum massif, Chiquitano Dry Forest, near the Brazil-Bolivia border (Plt. 198 A), at low to intermediate elevations (Plt. 198 B). Observed in the field in a restored area of Chaco (Leynaud and Bucher, 2005).
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
materials_examined
Type locality. Ten kilometers north of Joaquín V. González and 14.7 kilometers east of the intersection between National Route 16 and Provincial Route 30, Anta Department, province of Salta, Argentina.
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Dipsas lavillai in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 10981983.