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Frog-eater Snake
Echinanthera undulata (Wied-Neuwied, 1824)
Also calledCobrinha-cipó (por) · Corredeira-do-Mato-Ondulada (por) · Papa-Rã (por) · Wellenstreifige Natter (deu)
First described in: Wied-Neuwied, M. Verzeichniss der Amphibien, welche im zweyten Bande der Naturgeschichte Brasiliens vom Prinz Max von Neuwied werden beschrieben werden.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution. Endemic to Brazil (Plt. 217 A). Widespread in the southern part of the southern Atlantic Forest, with marginal records in Cerrado and Araucaria Forest (Plt. 217 A), from low to high elevations (Plt. 217 B). Observed in the field in primary and secondary forest (Hartmann et al., 2009; Barbo et al., 2011).
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
materials_examined
Type locality. “ Parahyba ” (= vicinity of Rio Paraíba do Sul, Campos dos Goytacazes; see Vanzolini and Myers, 2015), state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
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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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2458772.