Jan's Snail-eater
Dipsas alternans (Fischer, 1885)
Also calledCobra-caracoleira-de-jan (por) · Come-Lesma (por) · Dormideira (por) · Dormideira-de-Árvore (por)
First described in: Fischer, J. G. Ichthyologische und herpetologische Bemerkungen. V. Herpetologische Bemerkungen.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution. Endemic to Brazil (Plt. 193 A). Recorded in the southern and central portions of the Atlantic Forest (Plt. 193 A), mostly at high elevations (Plt. 193 B). Observed in the field in forest (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. Santos, state of São Paulo, Brazil. Corrected to Juquitiba by designation of a neotype in Passos et al. (2004).
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 5223472.