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Dryophylax chaquensis (BERGNA & ÁLVAREZ, 1993)

IUCN Red List - Dryophylax chaquensis - Least Concern, LC
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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesPortuguese: Jararaca-Falsa 
SynonymThamnodynastes chaquensis BERGNA & ALVAREZ 1993: 7
Thamnodynastes chaquensis — LEYNAUD & BUCHER 1999: 35
Thamnodynastes chaquensis —DORADO-RODRIGUES et al. 2012
Thamnodynastes chaquensis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 717
Thamnodynastes chaquensis — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019
Thamnodynastes chaquensis — TREVINE et al. 2021
Dryophylax chaquensis — TREVINE et al. 2022 
DistributionParaguay (Neembucu), Uruguay (HR 34: 390), Brazil,
Argentina (Santa Fe, Formosa, Chaco, Jujuy), Bolivia (Cochabamba, Santa Cruz, Tarija)

Type locality: Colonia Las Mercedes, San Fernando Department, Chaco, Argentina.  
ReproductionViviparous 
TypesHolotype: UNNE (= UNNEC) 00339; Paratype: UNNEC 
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CommentHabitat: partly arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 
EtymologyNamed after the type locality in the Argentinian Chaco. 
References
  • AKMENTINS, MAURICIO S.; LAURA C. PEREYRA ; JORGE BALDO 2010. THAMNODYNASTES CHAQUENSIS BERGNA Y ALVAREZ, 1993 (SQUAMATA, DIPSADIDAE). PRIMER REGISTRO PARA LA PROVINCIA DE JUJUY (REPÚBLICA ARGENTINA). Cuadernos de Herpetología 24 (1): 63–64 - get paper here
  • Alves, L. S. and N. R. De Albuquerque 2017. Thamnodynastes chaquensis Diet. Herpetological Review 48 (2): 459 - get paper here
  • Bellini, Gisela P.; Giraudo, Alejandro R.; Arzamendia, Vanesa 2014. Comparative ecology of three species of Thamnodynastes (Serpentes, Dipsadidae) in subtropical-temperate South America. The Herpetological Journal 24 (2): 87-96 - get paper here
  • Bellini, Gisela Paola; Vanesa Arzamendia and Alejandro Raúl Giraudo 2019. Reproductive life history of snakes in temperate regions: what are the differences between oviparous and viviparous species? Amphibia-Reptilia 40 (3): 291–303 - get paper here
  • Bergna,S. & Alvarez,B. 1993. Descripción de una nueva especie de Thamnodynastes (Reptilia: Serpentes, Colubridae) del Nordeste Argentino. Facena 10: 5-18 - get paper here
  • Cacciali, Pier; Norman J. Scott, Aida Luz Aquino Ortíz, Lee A. Fitzgerald, and Paul Smith 2016. The Reptiles of Paraguay: Literature, Distribution, and an Annotated Taxonomic Checklist. SPECIAL PUBLICATION OF THE MUSEUM OF SOUTHWESTERN BIOLOGY, NUMBER 11: 1–373 - get paper here
  • Céspedez, J.A. y B.B. Álvarez 2005. LISTA DE EJEMPLARES TIPOS Y DE ESPECIES DE LA COLECCIÓN HERPETOLÓGICA DE LA UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL NORDESTE, CORRIENTES, ARGENTINA (UNNEC). Facena 21: 139-144
  • Costa, Henrique Caldeira & Renato Silveira Bérnils 2015. Répteis brasileiros: lista de espécies 2015. Herpetologia Brasileira 4 (3): 75-93
  • Cuestas-Carrillo, Juan Fernando 2017. Predation of Thamnodynastes chaquensis (Serpentes, Colubridae) upon Elachistocleis matogrosso (Anura, Microhylidae) in the Brazilian Pantanal. Herpetology Notes 10: 355-357 - get paper here
  • Dias-Silva, F., Couto, R. M. P., Miguel, M. C., Adams, G. B., Buhler, D., & Pereira, E. A. 2021. PREDATORY INTERACTION BETWEEN TWO ANURAN SPECIES WITH Thamnodynastes chaquensis (COLUBRIDAE) IN THE BRAZILIAN CERRADO. Acta Biológica Colombiana, 26(2) - get paper here
  • Dorado-Rodrigues, T. F., V. A. Campos, M. M. dos Santos, A. Pansonato & C. Strüssmann 2012. Circumstances and bioacoustics of the distress call of Leptodactylus chaquensis (Anura: Leptodactylidae) during predation by Thamnodynastes chaquensis (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) in the Brazilian Pantanal. Salamandra 48 (4): 237-240 - get paper here
  • Dorado-Rodrigues, T. F., Valadão, R. M., Valério, L. M., Castro, C. P. D., & Strüssmann, C. 2025. Herpetofauna from a protected area situated in a biogeographic transition zone in Central South America. Biota Neotropica, 25(1), e20241681 - get paper here
  • Franco, F.L. & Ferreira, T. G. 2003. Descrição de uma nova espécie de Thamnodynastes Wagler, 1830 (Serpentes, Colubridae) do nordeste brasileiro, com comentários sobre o gênero. Phyllomedusa 1 (2): 57-74 [2002] - get paper here
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  • Harrington, Sean M; Jordyn M de Haan, Lindsey Shapiro, Sara Ruane 2018. Habits and characteristics of arboreal snakes worldwide: arboreality constrains body size but does not affect lineage diversification. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 125 (1): 61–71 - get paper here
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  • Leynaud, Gerardo C. and Enrique H. Bucher 1999. La fauna de serpientes del Chaco Sudamericano: diversidad, distribución geografica y estado de conservación. Academia Nacional de Ciencias Miscelanea (98):1-46
  • 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
  • Rivas LR, Callapa G, Mendoza-Miranda P, Muñoz A, Eversole CB, Powell RL 2024. Dryophylax chaquensis (Bergna & Álvarez, 1993) (Serpentes, Colubridae): first record from Cochabamba Department and a geographic range extension in Bolivia. Check List 20(2): 530-535 - get paper here
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  • TREVINE, VIVIAN C.; JOSÉ RANCÉS CAICEDO-PORTILLA, MARINUS HOOGMOED, ROBERT A. THOMAS, FRANCISCO L. FRANCO, GIOVANNA G. MONTINGELLI, MARIELA OSORNO-MUÑOZ, HUSSAM ZAHER 2021. A new species of Thamnodynastes Wagler, 1830 from western Amazonia, with notes on morphology for members of the Thamnodynastes pallidus group (Serpentes, Dipsadidae, Tachymenini). Zootaxa 4952 (2): 235–256 - get paper here
  • Varela, Esperanza Amalia 1999. Tipos de la colección herpetológica del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina. [type catalog] Iheringia, Sér. Zool., Porto Alegre (87): 57-74
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