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  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyColubridae
  5. ›genusClelia
Clelia clelia
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Black Mussurana

Clelia clelia (Daudin, 1803)

Also calledAlmindelig Slangeæder (dan) · Clelia obscure (fra) · Clélia obscure, Mussurana (fra) · Clélie obscure (fra) · Clélie obscure (La) (fra) · Cobra-Coral (juvenil) (por) · Cobra-Preta (por) · Culebra minadora (spa) · Culebra-viborera común (spa) · Limpa-Mato (por) · Lisa (spa) · Mussurana (por) · Mussurana (deu) · Muçurana (por)

First described in: Daudin, F. M. Histoire Naturelle Generale et Particuliere des Reptiles. Vol. 6.

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

distribution

Distribution. Known from Argentina, Bolívia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad, and Venezuela, mainly in Amazonia and in the Atlantic Forest of the Paraná River drainage (Plt. 310 A). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia and marginally in the Pantanal (Plt. 310 A), mostly at low elevations (Plt. 310 B). Previous maps and taxonomy in Zaher (1996). Observed in the field in forest (Gaiarsa et al., 2013).

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 8876700.