Lygophis elegantissimus (KOSLOWSKY, 1896)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Rhadinaea elegantissima KOSLOWSKY 1896: 155 Liophis anomalus — AMARAL 1925 (part.) Rhadinaea elegantissima CRANWELL 1942 Liophis anomalus — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 176 (part.) Liophis anomalus elegantissima — GALLARDO 1977 Liophis elegantissima — FREIBERG 1982 Liophis elegantissimus — DIXON 1989 Liophis elegantissimus — CEI 1993: 579 Liophis elegantissimus — GIRAUDO & SCROCCHI 2002 Lygophis elegantissimus — ZAHER et al. 2009 Lygophis elegantissimus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 412
Distribution	Argentina (Buenos Aires) Type locality: Sierra de la Ventana, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: lost, was MLP, a 630 mm female (J. Koslowsky and N. Alboff, 1890), apparently lost fide J. Williams in Dixon, 1985: 571.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: “Único entre los demás Liophis por presentar la llamativa estría color carmín dorsal desde la cabeza a la cola.” (Cei 1993) Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 1202 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Synonymy after CEI 1993. Rhadinaea anomala was synonymized with Rhadinaea elegantissima by AMARAL 1926: 17.
Etymology	Named after Latin elegantissimus, superlative of Latin elegantis, elegant, fine, handsome; tasteful. (from Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., May 2024)
References	Amaral, A. do 1925. South American snakes in the collection of the United States National Museum. Proc. US Natl. Mus. 67 (24): 1-30 - get paper here Amaral,A. do 1926. Notas de ophiologia. I. Sobre a invalidez de um genero e algumas especies de ophidios Sul-Americanos. Rev. Mus. Paulista 14: 17-33 Cei, J. M. 1993. Reptiles del noroeste, nordeste y este de la Argentina. Museo Regionale Sci. Naturale Torino, Monografie 14: 1-949 Cranwell 1942. nan Rev. Argentina Zoogeogr. 2: 143 Dixon J R 1985. A review of Liophis anomalus and Liophis elegantissimus, and the description of a new species (Serpentes: Colubridae). Copeia 1985 (3): 565-573 - get paper here Dixon, James R. 1989. A key and checklist to the neotropical snake genus Liophis with country lists and maps. Smithsonian Herp. Inf. Serv. (79): 1-40 - get paper here Freiberg, M.A. 1982. Snakes of South America. T.F.H. Publications, Neptune City, NJ, 189 pp. - get paper here Giraudo, A. R., and G. J. Scrocchi 2002. Argentinian Snakes: An Annotated Checklist. Smithsonian Herp. Inf. Serv. (132): 1-53 - get paper here Koslowsky,J. 1895. Reptiles y batracios de la Sierra de la Ventana (Provincia de Buenos Aires). Rev. Mus. La Plata 7: 151-156 - 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; Grazziotin, Felipe Gobbi; Cadle, John E.; Murphy, Robert W.; Moura-Leite, Julio Cesar de; Bonatto, Sandro L 2009. Molecular phylogeny of advanced snakes (Serpentes, Caenophidia) with an emphasis on South American Xenodontines: a revised classification and descriptions of new taxa. Pap. Avulsos Zool. (São Paulo) 49 (11): 115-153 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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