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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesPortuguese: Cobra-D’água, Cobra-D’água-Meridional 
SynonymHelicops infrataeniatus JAN 1865: 253
Helicops carinicaudus var. gastrosticta JAN 1865
Helicops trivittatus COPE 1878: 92
Calopisma septemvittatum FISCHER 1879: 84 (fide ROSSMAN 2000)
Helicops baliogaster COPE 1885: 193
Limnophis septemvittatus — COPE 1885: 177
Helicops septemvittatus — BOULENGER 1893: 275
Helicops pictiventris WERNER 1897
Helicops carinicauda var. infrataeniata GRIFFIN 1916
Helicops carinicaudus infrataeniatus — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970
Helicops infrataeniatus — HOFSTADLER DEIQUS & ZANINI CECHIN 1991
Helicops infrataeniatus — CEI 1993
Helicops infrataeniatus — GIRAUDO & SCROCCHI 2002
Helicops infrataeniatus — KAWASHITA-RIBEIRO et al. 2013
Helicops infrataeniatus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 322
Helicops infrataeniatus — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019 
DistributionS Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina), Uruguay,
Argentina (Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Entre Rios, Corrientes, Chaco, Formosa, Misiones), Paraguay (fide Paul Smith, pers. comm., 27 Apr 2014)

Type locality: Suriname  
Reproductionovovivparous (Braz et al. 2016) 
TypesLectotype: ZMH - R04331 (formerly no. B88 da); The other syntype from Brazil is deposited in Essex Inst. Salem according to JAN (1865) (Helicops intrataeniata)
Types: ZMH R04340-4 (5 specimens) type locality "Mexico" in error. The type specimens of Calopisma septemvittata are a species inquirenda (Smith & Taylor , 1945), and cannot allied to any know species in the Mexican herpetofauna (Flores-Villela 1993 [Calopisma septemvittata]
Syntypes: (2) ANSP 11206-07; Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul. [baliogaster]
Holotype: ZSM 198/0 (lost), adult, “Brasilien (Porto Alegre)” [pictiventris] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: This species can be distinguished from all other congeners except H. carinicaudus, H. nentur and H. tapajonicus by the combination of 17–20 dorsal scale rows at midbody, and a uniform or longitudinally striped dorsum. From H. nentur it differs in having a semidivided nasal scale, whereas H. nentur has an entire nasal scale. From H. carinicaudus it differs in having a cream or red venter with 1–3 dark stripes or darkly checkered or black with light spots. Sometimes the patterns shift into each other. From H. tapajonicus it differs in having strongly keeled dorsal scales, whereas H. tapajonicus has only a weak dorsal keeling. Additionally, H. tapajonicus possesses a ventrolateral greenish stripe, which is absent in H. infrataeniatus (for information on references see Suppl. material 3). Furthermore, these two species have allopatric distribution ranges (Schöneberg & Köhler 2021). 
CommentSynonymy after CEI 1993 and ROSSMAN 2000. Helicops baliogaster COPE 1885 is listed as a synonym of Helicops carinicaudas by BOULENGER 1886. 
EtymologyNamed after Latin infra, below + Latin taeniatus, having a, provided with a ribbon, tape or band. (JAN 1865, Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., April 2024) 
References
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