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Erythrolamprus breviceps (COPE, 1860)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
 
Common NamesE: Short Ground Snake
E: Long Ground Snake [longiventris]
Portuguese: Parelheira 
SynonymLiophis breviceps COPE 1860: 252
Liophis longiventris AMARAL 1925: 16
Liophis breviceps — BEEBE 1946: 34
Liophis canaima ROZE 1955: 188 (fide FERNANDES et al. 2002)
Liophis breviceps — PETERS 1960
Liophis longiventris — VANZOLINI in PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1986: 14
Liophis canaima — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970
Liophis breviceps canaima — DIXON 1983
Liophis breviceps — LANCINI & KORNACKER 1989
Liophis longiventris — CEI 1993
Liophis breviceps — KORNACKER 1999: 102
Liophis breviceps breviceps — GORZULA & SEÑARIS 1999
Liophis longiventris — FRANCA et al. 2006
Erythrolamprus longiventris — GRAZZIOTIN et al. 2012
Erythrolamprus breviceps — GRAZZIOTIN et al. 2012
Liophis longiventris — BERNARDE et al. 2012
Liophis breviceps — WALLACH et al. 2014: 380
Erythrolamprus breviceps — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019 
DistributionSuriname, NW Brazil (Pará [HR 32: 60]), Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, French Guiana, Guyana.

Type locality: Suriname

canaima: Venezuela; Type locality: Ugueto, Territorio Federal Amazonas, Venezuela

longiventris: Brazil (Mato Grosso, Rondonia), Argentina (CEI 1993: 754); Type locality: Mato Grosso, Brazil.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ANSP 3967
Holotype: MNRJ 367 [longiventris] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Distinguished from all other members of Liophis cobella group by having usually seven supralabials (80%) and 16 or less maxillary teeth. It is further distinguished from L. frenata by having less than 183 ventral scales (from FERNANDES et al. 2002). 
CommentDistribution: see map in Fernandes et al. 2002: 11 (Fig. 5). See map in Nogueira et al. 2019.

Synonymy: Liophis longiventris has been synonymized with L. breviceps by FERNANDES et al. (2002). WALLACH et al. 2014 cite it as synonym of Liophis breviceps. 
EtymologyNamed after Latin “brevis, -e” = short and “-ceps”, a short form of “caput” = head. 
References
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