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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Patagonia Green Racer
Portuguese: Boitiaporana, Boitiporana, Cobra-Cipó, Cobra-dos-Bosques, Cobra-Espada, Cobra-Parelheira, Corre-Campo, Corredeira, Papa-Pinto, Papa-Rato, Parelheira, Parelheira-Comum, Tiaporana 
SynonymCallirhinus patagoniensis GIRARD 1858: 182
Philodryas schotti (not SCHLEGEL) GÜNTHER 1858: 125
Europhrys modestus GÜNTHER 1858: 139
Pseudophis patagoniensis — COPE 1862
Liophis poecilostictus JAN 1863
Philodryas Schotti — BOETTGER 1885: 235
Dirrhox patagoniensis — COPE 1887
Philodryas schotti BOULENGER 1896 (3): 130 (part.)
Chlorosoma schotti SERIÉ 1921
Philodryas schotti — ABALOS et al. 1964
Philodryas patagoniensis — HOGE 1964
Philodryas patagoniensis — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970
Philodryas patagoniensis — CEI 1993
Philodryas patagoniensis — LEYNAUD & BUCHER 1999: 30
Philodryas patagoniensis — BERNILS et al. 2007
Philodryas patagoniensis — GRAZZIOTIN et al. 2012
Philodryas patagoniensis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 551
Philodryas patagonienis — BELLINI et al. 2019 (in error)
Philodryas patagoniensis — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019
Philodryas patagoniensis — ARREDONDO et al. 2020
Pseudablabes patagoniensis — MELO-SAMPAIO et al. 2020
Pseudablabes patagoniensis — DUBEUX et al. 2022 
DistributionBrazil (Rio Grande do Sul, Mato Grosso, Goiás, Rondonia: HR 33: 69, Pará, Tocantins, Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, São Paulo, Sergipe), Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina (Buenos Aires, Catamarca, Córdoba, Corrientes, Chaco, Chubut, Entre Ríos, Formosa, Jujuy, La Rioja, La Pampa, Mendoza, Misiones, Neuquén, Río Negro, Salta, San Juan, San Luis, Santa Fe, Santiago del Estero and Tucumán; Rio Negro [HR 32: 64]), Uruguay

Type locality: Mouth of the Negro River, Patagonia, Argentina.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: USNM 5536, a 927 mm female, and ANSP 3806 (formerly USNM), a 584 mm specimen (C. Wilkes [U.S. Explor. Exped.], 1838–1842), latter lost fide E. Malnate in R.A. Thomas (1976a: 172). 
Diagnosis 
CommentVenomous!

Synonymy after CEI 1993.

This is a highly variable species!

Habitat: partly arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 
EtymologyNamed after Spanish. Patagonia, a geographical, historical and cultural region located at Southern South America + Latin -ensis, of or from [a place]. (GIRARD 1858, Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., April 2024) 
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