| Higher Taxa | Colubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Fanged Water Snake
Portuguese: Cobra-D’água, Cobra-D’água-Serrana, Cobra-Espada-de-Água |
| Synonym | Ptychophis flavovirgatus GOMES 1915: 127
Paraptychophis meyeri LEMA 1967
Paratychophis flavovirgatus
Ptychophis flavovirgatus — SCARTOZZONI & MARQUES 2004
Ptychophis flavovirgatus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 618
Ptychophis flavovirgatus — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019
Ptychophis flavovirgatus — TREVINE et al. 2022 |
| Distribution | Brazil (Santa Catarina, Parana, Rio Grande do Sul)
Type locality: "São Bento, Estado de Santa Catharina, Brazil." [=São Bento do Sul, northeastern Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil, 26˚15'S, 49˚23'W].
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| Reproduction | ovovivparous |
| Types | Holotype: IBSP (= IB) 526, a 510 mm male (A. Swarowsky, April 1914). |
| Diagnosis | Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (3086 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
| Comment | Belongs to the Tachymenini, together with 6 other genera (BAILEY 1967).
Type species: Ptychophis flavovirgatus GOMES 1915 is the type species of the genus Ptychophis GOMES 1915. |
| Etymology | Named after Latin flavus, golden yellow, reddish yellow, flaxen-colored, blonde + Latin virgatus, that has bars or bands of colour, streaked, striped. (Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., April 2024)
The genus was named after Greek ptychos (πτυχός, from πτύξ), fold, leaf, layer, plate + Greek ophis (ὄφις), serpent. |
| References |
- Bailey, Joseph R. 1967. The synthetic approach to colubrid classification. Herpetologica 23 (2): 155-161 - get paper here
- Gomes, J.F. 1915. Contribuição para o conhecimento dos ophidios do Brasil. 1. Descrição de quatro especies novas e um novo Gênero de opisthóglyphos. 2. Ophidios do Museu Rocha (Ceará). Ann. Paulistas Med. & Chirurg. 4 (6): 121-129
- Gonzalez R. C. et al. 2020. Lista dos Nomes Populares dos Répteis no Brasil – Primeira Versão. Herpetologia Brasileira 9 (2): 121 – 214 - get paper here
- Kunz, Tobias Saraiva;<br>Ivo Rohling Ghizoni-Jr.,<br>Walter Luis Alves dos Santos & Paulo Afonso Hartmann 2007. Nota sobre a coleção herpetológica da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC). Biotemas, 20 (3): 127-132 - get paper here
- Lema, Th. de 1967. Novo gênero e espécie de serpente opistoglifodonte do Brasil Meridional (Colubridae, Boiginae). Iheringia (Zool.) (35): 61-74
- Lema, Thales de;Hofstadler Deiques, Clarice 1992. Contribuicao ao conhecimento da "Cobra espada d'Agua", Ptychophis flavovirgatus Gomes, (Serpentes, Colubridae, Xenodontinae, Tachymenini). Comun. Mus. Cienc. PUCRS, ser. zool. 5 (6): 55-83
- Nogueira, Cristiano C.; Antonio J.S. Argôlo, Vanesa Arzamendia, Josué A. Azevedo, Fausto E. Barbo, Renato S. Bérnils, Bruna E. Bolochio, Marcio Borges-Martins, Marcela Brasil-Godinho, Henrique Braz, Marcus A. Buononato, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, 2019. Atlas of Brazilian snakes: verified point-locality maps to mitigate the Wallacean shortfall in a megadiverse snake fauna. South American J. Herp. 14 (Special Issue 1):1-274 - get paper here
- Porto,M. & Caramaschi,U. 1988. Notes on the taxonomic status, biology, and distribution of Ptychophis flavovirgatus GOMES 1915 (Ophidia, Colubridae). Ann. Acad. bras. Ci. 60 (4): 471-475 - get paper here
- Scartozzoni, Rodrigo R. & Otavio A. V. Marques 2004. Sexual dimorphism, reproductive cycle, and fecundity of the Brazilian water snake Ptychophis flavovirgatus (Serpentes, Colubridae). Phyllomedusa 3 (1): 69-73 - get paper here
- Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp.
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