Brazilian Mussurana
Mussurana quimi (Franco, Marques & Puorto, 1997)
Also calledCobra-Preta (por) · Limpa-Mato (por) · Mussurana (por) · Muçurana (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. Known from Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay (Plt. 316 A). In Brazil, recorded in the southern portion of the Cerrado, central portion of the Atlantic Forest and its contact with Araucaria Forest, with isolated records in the Caatinga and Pampas Grassland (Plt. 316 A), mostly at intermediate to high elevations (Plt. 316 B). Observed in the field in open areas near gallery forest and wetlands (Vaz-Silva et al., 2007; Nogueira et al., 2011).
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
materials_examined
Type locality. Fazenda Santo Antônio, Itu, state of São Paulo, Brazil.
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 7868407.