South American Sipo
Chironius foveatus Bailey, 1955
Also calledCaninana (por) · Caninana-Verde-de-Cabeça-Preta (por) · Cipó (por) · Cobra-Cipó (por) · Cobra-Cipó-Verde (por) · Cobra-Espada (por) · Cobra-Verde (por) · Serra-Velha (por) · cobra-cipó verde (por) · Ямчатый лесной уж (rus)
First described in: Bailey, Joseph R. The snakes of the genus Chironius in southeastern South America.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
discussion
Remarks. Holotype (1444 mm SVL). The paratype MNRJ 2889 was exchanged with UMMZ. No tissue samples available. All MZUSP paratypes were formerly catalogued as DZSP.
Filling gaps between museum and society: An illustrated catalog of the primary type specimens of Squamata housed in the Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
materials_examined
Holotype. Adult male, MNRJ 1840, collected by V. Rosa on 10 August 1944 at Fortuna River (14 ° 47 ' S, 39 ° 02 ' W [approximate]; 52 m asl [approximate]), Municipality of Ilhéus, State of Bahia, Brazil. Paratypes. MACN (two uncatalogued specimens), MNRJ 583, UMMZ 115648, MZUSP 675, MZUSP 679, MZUSP 1271, MZUSP 1272, MZUSP 1268.
Filling gaps between museum and society: An illustrated catalog of the primary type specimens of Squamata housed in the Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
distribution
Distribution. Endemic to Brazil (Plt. 122 A). Widespread in the Atlantic Forest (Plt. 122 A), mostly at low elevations near the coast, with marginal inland records (Plt. 122 B). Previous maps and taxonomy in Dixon et al. (1993). Observed in the field in forest (Bérnils, 2009).
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
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Every page naming Chironius foveatus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 7353477.