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Pseudoeryx plicatilis (LINNAEUS, 1758)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
SubspeciesPseudoeryx plicatilis mimeticus COPE 1885
Pseudoeryx plicatilis plicatilis (LINNAEUS 1758) 
Common NamesE: South American Pond Snake
Portuguese: Cobra-D’água, Cobra-Preta, Sucuri 
SynonymColuber plicatilis LINNAEUS 1758: 217
Cerastes plicatilis — LAURENTI 1768: 81
Elaps plicatilis — SCHNEIDER 1801: 294
Natrix plicatilis — MERREM 1820: 99
Pseudoeryx Daudinii FITZINGER 1826: 55
Homalopsis plicatilis — BOIE 1827: 523
Helicops plicatilis — WAGLER 1830: 171
Pseuderyx plicatilis — FITZINGER 1843: 25 (unjustified emendation)
Dimades plicatilis — GRAY 1849: 76
Calopisma plicatile — DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL 1854: 344
Dimades plicatilis — KOSLOWSKY 1898
Pseudoeryx plicatilis ecuadorensis MERTENS 1965
Pseudoeryx plicatilis — STARACE 1998: 233
Pseudoeryx plicatilis — KORNACKER 1999: 127
Pseudoeryx plicatilis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 601

Pseudoeryx plicatilis plicatilis (LINNAEUS 1758)
Coluber plicatilis LINNAEUS 1758
Pseudoeryx plicatilis FITZINGER 1826: 55
Pseudoeryx daudinii FITZINGER 1826: 55
Dimades plicatilis — BOULENGER 1894
Pseudoeryx plicatilis var. anomalepis BOCOURT 1895: 804
Hydrops lehmanni DUNN 1944: 71 (fide ROZE 1957)
Pseudoeryx plicatilis plicatilis — HOGE & MARANHAO 1964
Pseudoeryx plicatilis plicatilis — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 255
Pseudoeryx plicatilis plicatilis — GASC & RODRIGUES 1980
Pseudoeryx plicatilis plicatilis — CEI 1993
Pseudoeryx plicatilis plicatilis — SCARTOZZONI et al. 2010

Pseudoeryx plicatilis mimeticus COPE 1885
Pseudoeryx mimeticus COPE 1885: 94
Pseudoeryx mimeticus — ROZE 1957: 23
Pseudoeryx plicatilis mimeticus — HOGE 1964: 82
Pseudoeryx plicatilis mimeticus — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 255
Pseuderyx mimeticus — MALNATE 1971: 369 (in error)
Pseudoeryx plicatilis mimeticus — SCARTOZZONI et al. 2010 
DistributionColombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru,
Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Bolivia, Paraguay, N Argentina (Corrientes, Chaco, Formosa, Misiones), Brazil (Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Acre, Amapá, Roraima, Pará, Rondonia, Amazonas, Maranhão)

Type locality: “Ternataeis”

mimeticus: Bolivia; Type locality: Bolivia, Rio Mamoré.  
Reproductionoviparous (Braz et al. 2016) 
TypesHolotype: NRM 57
Holotype: ANSP 11298 [mimeticus] 
Diagnosis 
CommentSynonymy after ROZE 1957, CEI 1993, DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL 1854 (plicatilis) and PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970 (mimeticus).

Type species: Pseudoeryx Daudinii FITZINGER 1826 is the type species of the genus Pseudoeryx FITZINGER 1826: 55. Roze 1957 provides a diagnosis of the genus, but SCHARGEL et al. (2007) provide a revised diagnosis of the genus. Coluber plicatilis LINNAEUS 1758 is the type species of the genus Dimades GRAY1849, now a synonym of Pseudoeryx.

Distribution: for a map and localities see Scartozzoni et al. 2010. See map in Nogueira et al. 2019.

Diet: a large percentage of the diet of this species (10-80%) consists of ants (Lucas et al. 2023). 
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