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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyColubridae
  5. ›genusEchinanthera
Echinanthera cyanopleura
Fig. 21. 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

Blue Flanked Leaf Litter Snake

Echinanthera cyanopleura (Cope, 1885)

Also calledBlåsidet Førnesnog (dan) · Cobrinha-Cipó (por) · Corredeira-Grande-do-Mato (por) · Papa-Rã (por)

First described in: Cope, E. D. Twelfth contribution to the herpetology of tropical America.

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

distribution

Distribution. Known from Argentina and Brazil (Plt. 215 A). Widespread in the southern portion of the Atlantic Forest (Plt. 215 A), form low to high elevations (Plt. 215 B). Observed in the field in forest (Di-Bernardo, 1991; Marques et al., 2001; Martins et al., 2008 b).

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

materials_examined

Type locality. Montenegro, state of Rio Grande do Sul, 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 2458763.