Fanged Water Snake
Ptychophis flavovirgatus Gomes, 1915
Also calledCobra-D’água (por) · Cobra-D’água-Serrana (por) · Cobra-Espada-de-Água (por) · Жёлтополосый птихофис (rus)
First described in: Gomes, J. F. Contribuição para o conhecimento dos ophidios do Brasil. 1. Descrição de quatro especies novas e um novo Gênero de opisthóglyphos. 2. Ophidios do Museu Rocha (Ceará).
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distribution
Distribution. Endemic to Brazil (Plt. 350 A). Widespread in Araucaria Forest, with marginal records in the Atlantic Forest and Pampas Grasslands (Plt. 350 A), mostly at high elevations (Plt. 350 B). Observed in the field in aquatic habitats in open areas (Scartozzoni and Marques, 2004).
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
materials_examined
Type locality. São Bento do Sul, state of Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2452714.