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Ditaxodon taeniatus (PETERS, 1868)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Hensel's Snake
Portuguese: Cobra-Cipó-das-Árvores, Cobra-Cipó-Marrom, Cobra-de-Listras, Corre-Campo, Corredeira, Parelheira-Listrada-do-Campo 
SynonymPhilodryas taeniatus PETERS in HENSEL 1868: 331
Philodryas taeniatus — BOULENGER 1886: 435
Conophis taeniatus — BOULENGER 1896:124
Ditaxodon taeniatus HOGE 1958: 54-55
Ditaxodon taeniatus — LEHR 2002: 204
Ditaxodon taeniatus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 241
Ditaxodon taeniatus — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019 
DistributionS Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul, Paraná [HR 27: 216], Mato Grosso do Sul, São Paulo), Peru ?; elevation between 800 and 1000 m in the state of Paraná and about 1800 m in the state of São Paulo.

Type locality: Palmeira (25°20’S, 50°00’W, 860 m), state of Pará, Brazil (neotype; see type information).  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ZMB 5980 (fide BOULENGER 1886), considered missing (fide Thomas et al. 2006) but then rediscovered (Bérnils et al. 2008). Neotype IBSP 10545 designated by Thomas et al. (2006) and invalidated by Bérnils et al. (2008) 
Diagnosis 
CommentMeasurements: 543 mm TL, tail 122 mm; tail/TL 0.225 (neotype).

The original type locality, “Porto Alegre”, is dubious to Bérnils et al. (2006). Not in Peru according to these authors.

Type species: Philodryas taeniatus PETERS in HENSEL 1868: 331 is the type species of the genus Ditaxodon HOGE 1958. 
References
  • BERNILS, RENATO S.; CHRISTOPH KUCHARZEWSKI, JULIO CESAR DE MOURA-LEITE & AXEL KWET 2008. Rediscovery of the holotype of Ditaxodon taeniatus (Peters in Hensel, 1868) (Serpentes: Colubridae) and invalidation of the neotype designation. Zootaxa 1764: 66-68 - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1886. A synopsis of the reptiles and batrachians of the province Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5) 18: 423-445 - get paper here
  • Bressan, Paulo Magalhães; Maria Cecília Martins Kierulff, Angélica Midori Sugieda (eds.) 2009. FAUNA AMEAÇADA DE EXTINÇÃO NO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO: VERTEBRADOS. São Paulo: Fundação Parque Zoológico de São Paulo: Secretaria do Meio Ambiente, 2009. - get paper here
  • 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
  • Hensel,R. 1868. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Wirbelthiere Süd-Brasiliens. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 37 (1): 331 [1867] - get paper here
  • HOGE, A.R. 1958. Die Systematische Stellung von Xenodon punctatus Peters, 1880 und Philodryas taeniatus Hensel, 1868. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 34:49-56 - get paper here
  • Lehr, E. 2002. Amphibien und Reptilien in Peru. Natur und Tier-Verlag (Münster), 208 pp. - get paper here
  • MARQUES, O. A. V. et al. 2009. Repteis. In: Bressan et al., FAUNA AMEAÇADA DE EXTINÇÃO NO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO: VERTEBRADOS. São Paulo: Fundação Parque Zoológico de São Paulo: Secretaria do Meio Ambiente, pp. 285-327 - 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
  • Thomas, Robert A., Renato Silveira Bérnils, Julio César de Moura-Leite and Sérgio Augusto Abrahâo Morato 2006. Redescription of Ditaxodon taeniatus (Hensel, 1868) (Serpentes, Colubridae, Xenodontinae): variation, relationships, and distribution. South American J. Herp. 1 (2): 94-101. - get paper here
  • Ukuwela, K.D.B., de Silva, A., Sivaruban, A. et al. 2022. Diversity, distribution, and natural history of the marine snakes of Sri Lanka. Marine Biodiversity 52, 24 (2022) - 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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