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  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyColubridae
  5. ›genusDipsas
Dipsas albifrons
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Sauvage's Snail-eater

Dipsas albifrons (Sauvage, 1884)

Also calledCobra-caracoleira-de-sauvage (por) · Come-Lesma (por) · Dormideira (por) · Dormideira-da-Ilha-da-Queimada-Grande (por) · Hvidpandet Sneglesnog (dan) · Quiriripitá (por) · Weißstirn-Schneckennatter (deu) · Белолобый дипсас (rus)

First described in: Sauvage, H.-E. Sur quelques Reptiles de la collection du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle.

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

distribution

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil (Plt. 192 A). Recorded in the southern and central portions of the Atlantic Forest (Plt. 192 A), mostly at low elevations (Plt. 192 B). Observed in the field in forest (Fernandes et al., 2010 b).

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 5223476.