Royal Ground Snake
Erythrolamprus reginae (Linnaeus, 1758)
Also calledCobra d'água (por) · Cobra-D’água (por) · Cobra-Verde (por) · Couleuvre royale (La) (fra) · Couresse royale (fra) · Jabutuboia (por) · Jararaquinha (por) · Königs-Glattnatter (deu) · Nordlig Kongeglatsnog (dan) · Parelheira (por) · jabutibóia (por)
First described in: Linnaeus, C. Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata.
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distribution
Distribution. Known from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, along major forest biomes (Plt. 383 A). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia and its contact with the Cerrado and with scattered records in upland Caatinga, and also widespread in the Atlantic Forest, forming a disjunct distribution (Plt. 383 A), mostly at low elevations (Plt. 383 B). Previous map and taxonomy in Ascenso et al. (2019). Observed in the field in forest, gallery forest, upland forest enclaves in the Caatinga, seasonally flooded areas, and disturbed areas (Martins and Oliveira, 1998; Bernarde and Abe, 2006).
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
description
Coronella reginae — Schlegel 1837; Essai sur la Physignomie des Serpens: 134. Liophis reginae — Duméril, Bibron & Duméril 1854; Erpétologie Générale: 704.
Taxonomic revision of the Erythrolamprus reginae species group, with description of a new species from Guiana Shield (Serpentes: Xenodontinae)
description
Erythrolamprus reginae semilineatus — Grazziotin et al. 2012; Cladistics. 1: 21. Liophis reginae — Wallach et al. 2014; Snakes of the World: 393 (part.). Lectotype. Juvenile specimen, NRM 44, from “ Indiis ” (in error). Andersson (1899) designated the lectotype and Dixon (1983 a) restricted the type locality to Surinam (photographs of the specimen examined; Fig. 1 A). Paralectotype. Juvenile specimen, NRM 45, with same data as the lectotype (Fig. 1 B).
Taxonomic revision of the Erythrolamprus reginae species group, with description of a new species from Guiana Shield (Serpentes: Xenodontinae)
description
Liophis reginae reginae — Dixon 1980; Milwaukee Publ. Mus. 31: 24. Liophis reginae semilineatus — Dixon 1983 a; Ann. Carnegie. Mus. 52: 3 (part.).
Taxonomic revision of the Erythrolamprus reginae species group, with description of a new species from Guiana Shield (Serpentes: Xenodontinae)
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 8275767.