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South American Pond Snake
Pseudoeryx plicatilis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Also calledAlmindelig Mørk Muddersnog (dan) · Cobra-D’água (por) · Cobra-Preta (por) · Cobra-da-lama (por) · Pseudoeryx écailleux (fra) · Pseudoéryx plicatile (Le) (fra) · Pseudoéryx écailleux (fra) · Sucuri (por) · Südamerikanische Teichschlange (deu) · Южноамериканский псевдоэрикс (rus)
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.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution. Known from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela (Plt. 293 A). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia and Pantanal, with marginal records in the Cerrado (Plt. 293 A), at low elevations (Plt. 293 B). Observed in the field in wetlands and seasonally flooded areas (Strüssmann and Sazima, 1993; Giraudo and Scrocchi, 2002; FranÇa et al., 2006; Scartozzoni et al., 2010).
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
materials_examined
Type locality. “ Ternataeis ” (= Ternate island, Indonesia; in error).
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 9174346.