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Phimophis vittatus (BOULENGER, 1896)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Banded Pampas Snake 
SynonymRhinostoma vittatum BOULENGER 1896 (3): 115
Rhinostoma guianense SERIÉ 1915 (part.)
Rhinostoma vittatum — SERIÉ 1936
Phimophis vittatus — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 246
Phimophis vittatus — CEI 1993: 651
Pimophis [sic] vittatus — LEYNAUD & BUCHER 1999: 32 (in error)
Phimophis vittatus — GIRAUDO & SCROCCHI 2002
Phimophis vittatus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 560 
DistributionArgentina (San Juan, La Rioja, Catamarca, Córdoba, Santiago del Estero, Tucumán, Salta, Chaco, Formosa, Santa Fe), S Bolivia, Paraguay

Type locality: Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Probably in error).  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1946.1.9.29 (formerly 79.2.12.6) 
Diagnosis 
CommentSynonymy after CEI 1993. 
EtymologyNamed after Latin “vittatus” for ribbon, or decorated by a ribbon, referring to the broad stripes in the species. 
References
  • Abalos, J.W., Baez, E.C., & Nader, R. 1964. Serpientes de Santiago del Estero. Acta Zoologica Lilloana 20: 211-283
  • Abdala V. 1990. MORPHOMETRICS IN TWO SPECIES OF GENUS PHIMOPHIS (COPE OPHIDIA COLUBRIDAE) [in Spanish]. Acta Zoologica Lilloana 39 (2): 85-90.
  • Bergna,S.; Rey,L. & Alvarez,B. 1992. Nuevas localidades para ofidios del nordeste argentino. Facena (9): 101-107 - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1896. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum, Vol. 3. London (Taylor & Francis), xiv + 727 pp. - 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
  • Cei, J. M. 1993. Reptiles del noroeste, nordeste y este de la Argentina. Museo Regionale Sci. Naturale Torino, Monografie 14: 1-949
  • Freiberg, M.A. 1982. Snakes of South America. T.F.H. Publications, Neptune City, NJ, 189 pp. - get paper here
  • Galdeano, Ana Paula; Gómez Alés, Rodrigo; Blanco, Graciela Mirta; Acosta, Juan Carlos 2018. Phimophis vittatus (Boulenger, 1897) (Serpentes: Dipsadidae): Nuevo registro para la provincia de San Juan, Argentina. Cuad. herpetol. 32 (1): 67-69 - 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
  • Guedes, Thaís B.; Ricardo J. Sawaya, Alexander Zizka, Shawn Laffan, Søren Faurby, R. Alexander Pyron, Renato S. Bérnils, Martin Jansen, Paulo Passos, Ana L. C. Prudente, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, Henrique B. Braz, Cristiano de C. Nogueira, Alexandre 2017. Patterns, biases and prospects in the distribution and diversity of Neotropical snakes. Global Ecol Biogeogr 00:1–8 - get paper here
  • Kacoliris F.P.; Berkunsky I. & Williams J. 2006. Herpetofauna of Impenetrable, Argentinean Great Chaco. Phyllomedusa 5 (2): 149-158 - get paper here
  • 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
  • PELEGRIN, N. & LEYNAUD, G. C. & BUCHER, E. H. 2006. Reptile fauna of the Chancaní Reserve (Arid Chaco, Argentina): species list and conservation status [Short Note]. Herpetozoa 19 (1/2): 85-86 - get paper here
  • Scrocchi, G.J.; Moreta, J.C. & Kretzschmar, S. 2006. Serpientes del Noroeste Argento [Jujuy, Salta, Tucumán, Catamarca, La Rioja, Santiago del Estero]. Fundación Miguel Lillo, Tucumán, 178 pp.
  • 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.
  • Williams,J.D. & Francini,F. 1991. A checklist of the Argentine snakes. Boll. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino 9 (1): 55-90
 
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