Erythrolamprus mossoroensis (HOGE & LIMA-VERDE, 1973)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	Portuguese: Cobra-D’água, Cobra-Preta, Jararacuçu-D’água, Jararaquinha
Synonym	Liophis mossoroensis HOGE & LIMA-VERDE 1973: 215 Liophis miliaris mossoroensis — DIXON 1983: 801 Liophis mossoroensis —SHINE 1994 Liophis mossoroensis — RODRIGUES 2003 Liophis miliaris mossoroensis — GIRAUDO et al. 2006 Liophis mossoroensis — HAMDAN & LIRA DA SILVA 2012 Erythrolamprus mossoroensis — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019
Distribution	NE Brazil (Rio Grande do Norte, Bahia, S Ceará) Type locality: Mossoro, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.
Reproduction	oviparous.
Types	Holotype: IBSP (given as IBH) 32.078, male
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Comment	Venomous! Synonymy: more recent authors list this species as synonym of L. miliaris, e.g. WALLACH et al. 2014: 383.
Etymology	Named after the type locality.
References	Cardozo-Ribeiro, Samuel; Felipe Silva Ferreira, Samuel Vieira Brito, Gindomar Gomes Santana, Washington Luiz da Silva Vieira, Rômulo Romeu da Nóbrega Alves, Waltécio de Oliveira Almeida 2008. The squamata fauna of the Chapada do Araripe, Northeastern Brazil. Cad. Cult. Ciênc. 1 (1) - get paper here Dixon,J.R. 1983. Taxonomic status of the South American snakes Liophis miliaris, L. amazonicus, L. chrysostomus, L. mossoriensis and L. purpurans. Copeia 1983 (3): 791-802 - get paper here Freitas, Marco Antônio; Omar Machado Entiauspe-Neto, Tiago de Oliveira Lima, José Soares da Silva Neto, Daniel Araujo & Jonathan Márcio Soares da Silva 2016. Snakes of Juazeiro, Bahia, Middle of São Francisco River, Brazil. Bol. Mus. Biol. Mello Leitão (N. Sér.) 38(4): 331-345. GIRAUDO, ALEJANDRO R.; VANESA ARZAMENDIA AND PIER CACCIALI 2006. GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION AND TAXONOMIC STATUS OF THE SOUTHERNMOST POPULATIONS OF LIOPHIS MILIARIS (LINNAEUS, 1758) (SERPENTES: COLUBRIDAE). The Herpetological Journal 16: 213-220 - get paper here Gonzalez R. C. et al. 2020. Lista dos Nomes Populares dos Répteis no Brasil – Primeira Versão. Herpetologia Brasileira 9 (2): 121 – 214 - get paper here GUEDES, THAÍS B.; CRISTIANO NOGUEIRA & OTAVIO A. V. MARQUES 2014. Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 001–093 - get paper here Hamdan, B. & R. M. Lira-da-Silva 2012. The snakes of Bahia State, northeastern Brazil: species richness, composition and biogeographical notes. Salamandra 48 (1): 31-50 - get paper here Hamdan, B.; D.P. Coelho; A.B. D’Angiolella; E.J.R. Dias; R.M. Lira-da-Silva. 2013. The Reptile Collection of the Museu de Zoologia, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil. Check List 9 (2):257-262 - get paper here Hoge,A.R. & Lima Verde,J.S. 1973. Liophis mossoroensis nov. sp. do Brasil (Serpentes: Colubridae). Mem. Inst. Butantan 36: 215-220 [1972] - get paper here Mesquita , P.; Passos, D.C.; Borges-Nojosa, D. M. & Cechin, S.Z. 2013. Ecologia e história natural das serpentes de uma área de Caatinga no nordeste brasileiro Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia 53 (8): 99-113 - get paper here Nogueira, Cristiano C.; Antonio J.S. Argôlo, Vanesa Arzamendia, Josué A. Azevedo, Fausto E. Barbo, Renato S. Bérnils, Bruna E. Bolochio, Marcio Borges-Martins, Marcela Brasil-Godinho, Henrique Braz, Marcus A. Buononato, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, 2019. Atlas of Brazilian snakes: verified point-locality maps to mitigate the Wallacean shortfall in a megadiverse snake fauna. South American J. Herp. 14 (Special Issue 1):1-274 - get paper here Ribeiro, S. C., I. J. Roberto, D. L. Sales, R. W. Ávila & W. O. Almeida 2012. Amphibians and reptiles from the Araripe bioregion, northeastern Brazil. Salamandra 48 (3): 133-146 - get paper here Rodrigues, M.T. 2003. Herpetofauna da Caatinga. In: I.R. Leal, M. Tabarelli & J.M.C. Silva (eds.). Ecologia e conservação da Caatinga, pp. 181-236. Editora Universitária, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brasil. Shine, Richard 1994. Sexual size dimorphism in snakes revisited. Copeia 1994 (2): 326-346 - get paper here Silva, É. F., Júnior, J. R. M. B., Dutra, M. L., Barbosa, V. N., França, F. G., & França, R. C. 2025. Erythrolamprus mossoroensis (Hoge & Lima Verde, 1973)(Serpentes, Dipsidae): updated distribution, range extension, and new state record from Paraíba, Brazil. Check List, 21(3), 565-568 - get paper here
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