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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyColubridae
  5. ›genusChironius
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Central Sipo

Chironius maculoventris Dixon, Wiest & Cei, 1993

Also calledCobra-Cipó (por) · Culebra trepadora chaqueña (spa)

First described in: Dixon J R, Wiest J A Jr, & Cei J M. Revision of the Neotropical snake genus Chironius Fitzinger (Serpentes, Colubridae).

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

distribution

Distribution. Known from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay, mostly in the Chaco (Plt. 126 A). In Brazil, known only from the extreme southwest of Rio Grande do Sul state, Espinilho region (Plt. 126 A) at low elevations (Plt. 126 B). Previous maps and taxonomy in Dixon et al. (1993). Observed in the field in dry forest and seasonal forest (Dixon et al., 1993).

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 9483266.