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Green Vine Snake
Oxybelis fulgidus (Daudin, 1803)
Also calledBejuquilla Verde (spa) · Bicuda (por) · Boitiaboia (por) · Cobra-Bicuda (por) · Cobra-Bicuda, Cobra-Papagaio, Cobra-Cipó (por) · Cobra-Cipó (por) · Cobra-Flecha (por) · Cobra-Papagaio (por) · Cobra-Papagaio Cobra-Verde (por) · Colubro delle viti verde (ita) · Couleuvre brillante (La) (fra) · Culebra bejuquilla verde (spa) · Culebra-bejuquilla verde (spa) · Glanzspitznatter (deu)
First described in: Daudin, F. M. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Reptiles, Vol. 5.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
description
Morphometric and meristic characters. Snout-vent length 969 – 1322 mm (adults, n = 6). Tail length 531 – 587 mm (n = 6). Smooth dorsal scales 17 - 17 - 13 rows (100 %), vertebral and paravertebrals keeled, without apical pits. Ventral scales 202 – 220 (x ̅ = 211). Subcaudal scales 145 – 156 (x ̅ = 152). Divided cloacal plate (100 %). Loreal absent (100 %). Preocular 1 (100 %). Postoculars 2 (100 %). Temporals 1 + 2 (100 %). Supralabials 9 – 10 (10 / 10 in 83 % of specimens and 9 / 9 in 17 %); fifth, sixth and seventh contact the orbit (83 %) and fifth and sixth contact the orbit (17 %). Infralabials 10 (100 %); the first four contact the first pair of chin shields (100 %) (Table 2); and fourth, fifth and sixth in contact with the second pair of chin shields.
Vine snakes (Oxybelis) and Sharpnose snakes (Xenoxybelis) (Squamata, Serpentes) from lowlands of Bolivia, with first records of Oxybelis inkaterra for the country
distribution
Distribution. Known from Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, mostly in Amazonian forest (Plt. 142 A). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia and Guianan savannas, with marginal records in the Cerrado and Chiquitano Dry Forest (Plt. 142 A), mostly at low elevations (Plt. 142 B). Observed in the field in forest and disturbed areas (Martins and Oliveira, 1998; Martins et al., 2008 b).
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 2453625.