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Siphlophis pulcher (RADDI, 1820)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Guanabara Spotted Night Snake
Portuguese: Cobra-Cipó-Listrada, Cobra-Coral, Dorme-Dorme, Dormideira-Cipó-de-Listra-Vermelha 
SynonymColuber pulcher RADDI 1820: 337
Lycognathus geminatus DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1854
Oxyrhopus rhombeatus PETERS 1863: 288
Lycognathus rhombeatus — MÜLLER 1924: 87
Callopistria rubrovertebralis AMARAL 1936 (fide HOGE 1964)
Siphlophis cervinus rubrovertebralis — AMARAL 1977: 140
Siphlophis pulcher — BAUER et al. 1995: 73
Siphlophis pulcher — HAMDAN et al. 2012
Siphlophis pulcher — WALLACH et al. 2014: 679
Siphlophis pulcher — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019 
DistributionBrazil (Minas Gerais to Rio Grande do Sul, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro)

Type locality: “vicinanze di Rio-Janeiro”.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MZUF (also as MRF or IRMC) (G. Raddi). 
Diagnosis 
CommentSynonymy fide WALLACH et al. 2014: 679.

Habitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 
EtymologyNamed after Latin “pulcher” = beautiful, handsome, fine, fair. 
References
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  • Amaral,A. 1977. Serpentes do Brasil. Iconografía colorida. Tomo I, II y III. Ed. Melhoramentos & Inst. Nac. Livro, Edit. Univ. Sao Paulo, 248 pp.
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  • Duméril, A. M. C., Bibron, G. & DUMÉRIL, A. H. A., 1854. Erpétologie générale ou histoire naturelle complète des reptiles. Tome septième. Deuxième partie, comprenant l'histoire des serpents venimeux. Paris, Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret: i-xii + 781-1536 - get paper here
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