Golden Liophis
Erythrolamprus semiaureus (Cope, 1862)
Also calledCobra-D’água (por) · Cobra-Lisa (por) · Cobra-Lisa-Pampeana (por) · Cobra-Preta-de-Banhado (por) · Cobra-d'água (por) · Culebra acuática marrón (spa) · Culebra parda (spa) · Gylden Glatsnog (dan)
First described in: Cope, E. D. Catalogues of the reptiles obtained during the explorations of the Parana Paraguay, Vermejo and Uruguay rivers, by Capt. Thos. J. Page, U.S.N.; and of those procured by Lieut. N. Michier, U. S. Top. Eng., Commander of the expedition conducting the survey of the Atrato River. I. The Paraguay collection.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution. Known from Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, at the southern portion of the South American open diagonal (Plt. 385 A). In Brazil, widespread in Pampas Grasslands, with marginal records in the Atlantic Forest (Plt. 385 A), mostly at low elevations (Plt. 385 B). Previous map and taxonomy in Giraudo et al. (2006). Observed in the field in seasonally flooded grassland (Giraudo et al., 2006; Arzamendia and Giraudo, 2009; Quintela et al., 2011 a; Santos et al., 2010) and grassland (Cacciali et al., 2016).
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
materials_examined
Type locality. “ Paraguay, ” probably from the mouth of the Paraguay River according to Gans, 1964. See also Giraudo et al., 2006.
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 9522552.