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Tapajós Keelback
Helicops tapajonicus Da Frota, 2005
Also calledCobra-D’água (por) · Cobra-d'água (por)
First described in: Frota, J.G. Da; Pedroso Dos Santos-Jr, Alfredo; Menezes-Chalkidis, H. De & Guimarães Guedes, A. AS SERPENTES DA REGIÃO DO BAIXO RIO AMAZONAS, OESTE DO ESTADO DO PARÁ, BRASIL (SQUAMATA).
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution. Endemic to Brazil (Plt. 287 A), restricted to eastern Amazonia (Plt. 287 A) at low elevations near the mouth of the Tapajós River (Plt. 287 B). Observed in the field in wet areas around streams, lakes and rivers in forest regions (Frota, 2005).
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
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Type locality. “ Parauá, margem direita do rio Tapajós, município de Santarém, estado do Pará, Brasil. ” Corrected to Parauá, left margin (not right) of the Tapajós River, Santarém, Pará, Brazil.
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
Diagnosis
This species can be distinguished from all its congeners by its unique colour pattern, namely the combination of a uniform moss-green dorsum, laterally with a greenish-yellow stripe and a black and greenish-yellow banded venter (for information on references, see Suppl. material 3).
Distribution and identification of the species in the genus Helicops Wagler, 1830 (Serpentes, Colubridae, Xenodontinae)
Distribution
H elicops tapajonicus is only known from two localities at the River Tapajos close to its confluence with the Amazon in the Brazilian State Para (Fig. 3e).
Distribution and identification of the species in the genus Helicops Wagler, 1830 (Serpentes, Colubridae, Xenodontinae)
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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Every page naming Helicops tapajonicus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2457692.