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  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyColubridae
  5. ›genusSordellina
Sordellina punctata
Fig. 25. Luna, Ugalde, Guimarães, 2025 (CC BY 4.0) · Plazi / Biodiversity Literature Repository. Found by name on iNaturalist, Wikimedia Commons and in the open-access papers that described the species (Plazi); click a picture for its credit and licence.
IUCN LC · Least concern

Dotted Brown Snake

Sordellina punctata (Peters, 1880)

Also calledCobra-D’água (por) · Cobra-Lisa (por) · Cobra-Preta (por) · Cobrinha-Preta-do-Litoral (por) · Пятнистая змея Сорделли (rus)

First described in: Peters, W. C. H. Eine Mittheilung über neue oder weniger bekannte Amphibien des Berliner Zoologischen Museums (Leposoma dispar, Monopeltis (Phractogonus jugularis, Typhlops depressus, Leptocalamus drilineatus, Xenodon punctatus, Elapomorphus erythronotus, Hylomantis fallax).

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

distribution

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil (Plt. 218 A). Restricted to the southern portion of the Atlantic Forest (Plt. 218 A), mostly from low to intermediate elevations (Plt. 218 B). Observed in the field in open areas (restinga), wetlands, lakes, rivers, and riparian vegetation (Pereira et al., 2007).

Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna

materials_examined

Type locality. Restricted to Poá, state of São Paulo, Brazil, by Hoge and Romano (1978).

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 2453228.