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GBIF·9590632speciesAnimalia406 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyColubridae
  5. ›genusParaphimophis
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Culebra

Paraphimophis rusticus (Cope, 1878)

Also calledBicuda (por) · Culebra marron (spa) · Musurana marrón (spa) · Musurana parda (spa) · Muçurana (por) · Muçurana-Comum-do-Pampa (por) · Muçurana-Marrom (por) · Muçurana-Pampeana (por) · Muçurana-Parda (por) · Rustfarvet Slangeæder (dan) · Кулебра (rus)

First described in: Cope, E. D. Tenth contribution to the herpetology of Tropical America.

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

distribution

Distribution. Known from Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay (Plt. 325 A). In Brazil, widespread in Araucaria Forest and Pampas Grasslands, with marginal records in the Cerrado and Atlantic Forest (Plt. 325 A), mostly at intermediate to high elevations (Plt. 325 B). Observed in the field in grasslands and open areas (Giraudo, 2001; Scott 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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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 9590632.