False Fer-De-Lance
Xenodon rabdocephalus (Wied-Neuwied, 1824)
Also calledAchatadeira (por) · Almindelig Sydamerikansk Hugormesnog (dan) · Boipeva (por) · Culebra-engañosa norteña (spa) · Falsa nauyaca (spa) · Falso Terciopelo (spa) · Falso ferro di lancia (ita) · Jaracuçu (por) · Jararaca (por) · Papa-Sapo (por) · Pepéua (por) · Sorda de tierra (spa) · Streifköpfige Natter (deu) · Surucucu-Jiboia (por)
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. Known from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, largely associated to South American major forested biomes (Plt. 404 A). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia, and in central and southern Atlantic Forest, forming a disjunct distribution, with marginal records in the Chiquitano Dry Forest, northwestern Cerrado and its contact areas with the Pantanal (Plt. 404 A), mostly at low elevations (Plt. 404 B). Observed in the field in wetlands and gallery forest in (Martins and Oliveira, 1998; Martins et al., 2008 b; Nogueira et al., 2010).
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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Every page naming Xenodon rabdocephalus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5959581.