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South American Hognose Snake
Xenodon dorbignyi
Xenodon dorbignyi, known commonly as the South American hognose snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to South America, being found in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. It has four recognized subspecies.
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Description
X. dorbignyi may attain a total length of 56 cm (22 in), including a tail 8 cm (3.1 in) long. It resembles the sympatric venomous snake Bothrops alternatus.
Range & habitat
X. dorbignyi is found in northeast Argentina, southern Brazil, southern Paraguay and all of Uruguay. It has a preference for habitats with sandy soils that it can burrow into, and is found in both open grassland and montane forests, with a range spanning multiple ecoregions, including the Gran Chaco, the Humid Chaco, the Pampas and the Alto Paraná Atlantic forests. In Uruguay it has also been found living in urban areas. The 2014 IUCN Red List assessment of X. dorbignyi deemed it to be a least-concern species on the basis of its large distribution and a lack of known threats.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 146537.