Neotropical Snail-eater
Dipsas bucephala (Shaw, 1802)
Also calledCome-Lesma (por) · Dormideira (por) · Dormideira-Comum (por) · Jararaca (por) · Jararaquinha-Dormideira (por) · Papa lesmas (por)
First described in: Shaw, G. General Zoology, or Systematic Natural History. Vol.3, part 2.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution. Known from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay (Plt. 194 A). In Brazil, recorded in the Cerrado and its contacts with the Atlantic Forest and Chiquitano Dry Forest (Plt. 194 A), mostly at low to intermediate elevations (Plt. 194 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
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 7459375.