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Amnisiophis amoenus (JAN, 1863)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae, Echinantherini), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymE. [nicognathus] amoenus JAN 1863: 270
Enicognathus amoenus — JAN 1866
Aporophis amoenus — BOULENGER 1894
Lygophis amoenus — AMARAL 1929: 169
Lygophis amoenus — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 185
Liophis amoenus Incertae sedis — DIXON 1980
Echinanthera amoenus — DI BERNARDO 1992
Echinanthera amoena — SCHARGEL et al. 2005
Echinanthera amoena — WALLACH et al. 2014: 253
Echinantera amoena — CITELI et al. 2016 (in error)
Echinanthera amoena — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019
Amnisiophis amoenus — ABEGG et al. 2022 
DistributionSE Brazil (from S Minas Gerais to S Paraná; Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro)

Type locality: "Patria?" [=Unknown].  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MSNM, a 590 mm specimen. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (genus): “Amnisiophis amoenus can be distinguished by (1) usually eight supralabials, with 2nd–3rd touching the loreal and 3rd–5th touching the orbit; (2) 17/17/17 dorsal scale rows, usually with one or two apical pits; (3) a dorsal color that shifts from green on the back of the head and first third of the body to brown on the midbody and dark brown on the posterior part;(4)midventralportionwithtransversebandsatthebase of the ventral scales, especially observable in adults; (5) dorsal scales of the 3rd row with a light spot forming a continuous line from the anterior part of the body toward the tail; (6) hemipenis slightly bilobed, with an interspinal asulcate gap and absence of an enlarged proximal spine; (7) supratemporals usually contact parietal; (8) dorsolateral crests of the parietal conspicuous and abruptly tapered in the posterior region, close to the contact with supraoccipital; (9) parabasisfenoid lateral crests conspicuous; (10) large number of maxillary (27–33), palatine (20–21), pterygoid (31–33) and dentary teeth (34–36) (Figures 3D, 5G, 7B, 8A and Table 1).” (Abegg et al. 2022) 
Commentbelongs to the “Rhadinaea brevirostris group” sensu Myers (1974)

Type species: E. [nicognathus] amoenus JAN 1863: 270 is the type species of the genus Amnisiophis Abegg et al. 2022. 
EtymologyNamed after Latin “amoenus” = pleasing or lovely. 
References
  • Abegg AD, Santos AP Jr, Costa HC, Battilana J, Graboski R, Vianna FSL, Azevedo WS, Fagundes NJR, Castille CM, Prado PC, Bonatto SL, Zaher H and Grazziotin FG 2022. Increasing taxon sampling suggests a complete taxonomic rearrangement in Echinantherini (Serpentes: Dipsadidae). Front. Ecol. Evol. 10:969263 - get paper here
  • Amaral,A. do 1930. Estudos sobre ophidios neotropicos XVIII. Lista remissiva dos ophidios da região neotropica. Mem. Inst. Butantan 4: 126-271 [1929] - get paper here
  • Cassimiro, José, Mauro Teixeira, Jr., Renato Sousa Recoder and Miguel Trefault Rodrigues. 2013. Geographic Distribution: Echinanthera amoena (Corredeira-do-mato). Herpetological Review 44 (4): 625 - get paper here
  • Citeli N, Hamdan B, Guedes T 2016. Snake richness in urban forest fragments from Niterói and surroundings, state of Rio de Janeiro, southeastern Brazil. Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e7145 - get paper here
  • Di Bernardo,M. 1992. Revalidation of the gênero Rhadinaea Copegenus Echinanthera COPE 1894 and its conceptual amplification (Serpentes, Colubridae). Comun. Mus. Ciênc. PUCRS, sér. zool., Porto Alegre 5 (13): 225-256
  • Dixon, J. R. 1980. The neotropical colubrid snake genus Liophis. The generic concept. Milwaukee Public Museum Contributions in Biology and Geology 31: 1-40 - get paper here
  • Jan, G. 1863. Enumerazione sistematica degli ofidi appartenenti al gruppo Coronellidae. Arch. Zool. Anat. Fisiol. 2 (2): 213-330 [1862] - get paper here
  • Jan, G. 1866. Iconographie générale des ophidiens. 16. Livraison. J.B. Bailière et Fils, Paris - get paper here
  • Muscat, Edelcio; Matheus de Toledo Moroti 2020. Filling gaps: new record of Echinantera amoena (Jan, 1863) for the Serra da Mantiqueira, state of São Paulo, Brazil. Herpetology Notes 13: 429-431 - get paper here
  • Myers, C.W. 1974. The systematics of Rhadinaea (Colubridae), a genus of New World snakes. Bull. Amer. Mus. nat. Hist. 153 (1): 1-262 - get paper here
  • 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
  • Oliveira, Jane C.F.; Rodrigo Castellari Gonzalez; Paulo Passos; Davor Vrcibradic & Carlos Frederico Duarte Rocha 2020. Non-Avian Reptiles of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: status of knowledge and commented list. Pap. Avulsos Zool. 60: e20206024 - get paper here
  • ROCHA, CARLOS FREDERICO D.; HELENA G.BERGALLO, JOSÉ P. POMBAL JR., LENA GEISE, MONIQUE VAN SLUYS, RONALDO FERNANDES, ULISSES CARAMASCHI 2004. FAUNA DE ANFÍBIOS, RÉPTEIS E MAMÍFEROS DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO, SUDESTE DO BRASIL. Publ. Avul. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro (104): 3-23 - get paper here
  • Santos-Azevedo, Weverton dos; Ligia Grazziely dos Santos Amorim, Frederico de Alcântara Menezes, Arthur Diesel Abegg 2018. Natural history notes and geographic distribution of the poorly known Echinanthera amoena (Serpentes: Dipsadidae). Herpetology Notes 11: 925-928 - get paper here
  • Santos-Azevedo, Weverton dos; Ligia Grazziely dos Santos Amorim, Frederico de Alcântara Menezes, Arthur Diesel Abegg 2019. Corrigendum to “Natural history notes and geographic distribution of the poorly known Echinanthera amoena (Serpentes: Dipsadidae)” by Azevedo et al. (2018). Herpetology Notes 12: 1027 - get paper here
  • Schargel, Walter E., Gilson Rivas Fuenmayor and Charles W. Myers 2005. An Enigmatic New Snake from Cloud Forest of the Península de Paria, Venezuela (Colubridae: Genus Taeniophallus?). American Museum Novitates 3484:1-22. - 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.
  • Zaher, Hussam; Fausto Erritto BarboI; Paola Sanchez Martínez; Cristiano Nogueira; Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues; Ricardo Jannini Sawaya 2011. Répteis do Estado de São Paulo: conhecimento atual e perspectivas. Biota Neotropica, 11 (1): 1–15. - get paper here
 
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