Cope's Snail-eater
Dipsas copei (Günther, 1872)
Also calledCobra-caracoleira-de-cope (por) · Dipsade de Cope (La) (fra) · Dipsas à museau jaune (fra) · Американский улиткоед Копа (rus)
First described in: Günther, A. Seventh account of new species of snakes in the collection of the British Museum.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution. Known from Guyana, French Guiana and from a record at the Brazilian-Venezuelan border, all in the Guiana Shield (Plt. 196 A). In Brazil, recorded from Guianan savannas (Plt. 196 A; Passos et al., 2004), at intermediate elevations (Plt. 196 B). Observed in the field in forest (MacCulloch and Lathrop, 2004).
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 5223441.