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Night Snake
Hypsiglena torquata (Günther, 1860)
Also calledCobra-da-noite-de-sinaloa (por) · Culebra Nocturna (spa) · Culebra de la noche (spa) · Culebra nocturna del Pacífico (spa) · Culebra nocturna ojo de gato (spa) · Culebra ojo de gato (spa) · Culebra-nocturna ojo de gato (spa) · Nachtschlange (deu) · Nocturna de Collar (spa) · Ночной уж Гюнтера (rus)
First described in: Günther, A. Description of Uriechis microlepidotes, a new snake from South Africa.
This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.
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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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Hypsiglena torquata in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 9230860.