Mussurana montana
Mussurana montana (Franco, Marques & Puorto, 1997)
Also calledCoral (juvenil) (por) · Coral-Falsa (juvenil) (por) · Muçurana-das-Montanhas (por)
First described in: Franco, F. L., Marques, O. A. V., & Puorto, G. Two new species of colubrid snakes of the genus Clelia from Brazil.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution. Endemic to Brazil (Plt. 315 B). Restricted to the central Atlantic Forest (Plt. 315 A), mostly at high elevations (Plt. 315 B). Observed in the field in forest (Martins et al., 2008 b; Hartmann et al., 2009).
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
materials_examined
Type locality. Sodré hydroelectric power plant, Guaratinguetá, state of São Paulo, Brazil.
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
distribution
Distribution and habitat. Southeast Brazil (Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, and Sao Paulo) (Wallach et al. 2014). This species occurs in fields, close to ombrophilous and seasonal forests (Bernils 2009).
Composition and natural history of the snakes from the Parque Estadual da Serra do Papagaio, southern Minas Gerais, Serra da Mantiqueira, Brazil
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 7675197.