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Diurnal Vine Snake
Xenoxybelis argenteus (Daudin, 1803)
Also calledBejuquilla plateada (spa) · Bicuda (por) · Cobra-Cipó (por) · Grønstribet Spidssnog (dan) · Liane à gorge verte (fra) · Liane à gorge verte, Serpent-liane (fra) · Philodryade argentée (fra) · Philodryade argentée (La) (fra) · Tucanaboia (por) · Tucanabóia (por)
First described in: Daudin, F. M. Histoire Naturelle Generale et Particuliere des Reptiles. Vol. 6.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
description
Morphometric and meristic characters. Snout-vent length 691 mm. Tail length 411 mm. Smooth dorsal scales 17 - 17 - 15 rows, without apical pits. Ventral scales 209. Subcaudal scales 182. Undivided cloacal plate. Loreal absent. Preocular 1. Postoculars 2. Temporals 1 + 1 + 2 / 1 + 2 + 2. Supralabials 6; fourth contacting the orbit. Infralabials 7; the first four contacting the first pair of chin shields (Table 4) and fourth and fifth contact 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
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2456977.