You are here » home › advanced search › search results › Xenodon pulcher

Xenodon pulcher (JAN, 1863)

IUCN Red List - Xenodon pulcher - Least Concern, LC
iNaturalist logo

Can you confirm these amateur observations of Xenodon pulcher?

Add your own observation of
Xenodon pulcher »

Find more photos by Google images search: Google images

Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesG: Falsche Korallenschlange, Dreifarben-Hakennasennatter
Portuguese: Achatadeira, Boipeva 
SynonymHeterodon pulcher JAN 1863: 222
Lystrophis semicinctus BOULENGER 1894 (part.)
Lystrophis pulcher — SCROCCHI & CRUZ 1993
Lystrophis pulcher — LEYNAUD & BUCHER 1999: 25
Lystrophis pulcher — SCROCCHI et al. 2006: 107
Xenodon pulcher — ZAHER et al. 2009
Lystrophis pulcher — WALLACH et al. 2014: 407
Xenodon pulcher — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019 
DistributionSW Brazil (Mato Grosso do Sul), E Bolivia, S Paraguay,
Argentina (Jujuy, Salta, Catamarca, Tucuman, Santiago del Estero, Formosa, Chaco, Cordoba, San Luis, Entre Rios, Corrientes)

Type locality: Bolivia.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: lost, formerly MSNM (Milano), destroyed in 1943 during World War II. 
DiagnosisUnfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 996 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentMimics the sympatric species Micrurus pyrrhocryptus tricolor (in Paraguay).

Variation: Trutnau (2005) described melanistic specimens which have only weak white bands. See also photos in Winchell (2010).

Similar species: X. matogrossensis (see photos in Cabral et al. 2015). 
EtymologyNamed after Latin “pulcher” = beautiful, handsome, fine, fair. 
References
  • Cabral, Hugo; Liliana Piatti, Franco Leandro de Souza, Gustavo Scrocchi, Vanda Lúcia Ferreira 2015. Xenodon pulcher (Jan, 1863) (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) first record for Brazil and a distribution extension. Herpetology Notes 8: 361-364 - 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
  • 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
  • Hutwalker, A. 2009. Die gebänderten Hakennasennattern der Gattung Lystrophis. Reptilia (Münster) 14 (77): 52-57 - get paper here
  • Jan, G. 1863. Enumerazione sistematica degli ofidi appartenenti al gruppo Coronellidae. Arch. Zool. Anat. Fisiol. 2 (2): 213-330 [1862] - get paper here
  • Jan, G. 1865. Iconographie générale des ophidiens. 11. Livraison. J.B. Bailière et Fils, Paris - 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
  • Love, B. 2018. Western Herp Perspectives: Paraguay. Reptilia 23 (131): 58-59
  • 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
  • Oliveira, J. S., Santana, D. J., Pantoja, D. L., Ceron, K., & Guedes, T. B. 2024. Climate change in open environments: Revisiting the current distribution to understand and safeguard the future of psammophilous squamates of the Diagonal of Open Formations of South America. Journal of Arid Environments, 220, 105117 - get paper here
  • Peñaranda-Barrios, E.M. & J.M. Castro (Eds.). 2017. Huacareta, un área de exploración entre el bosque Tucumano boliviano, Chaco serrano y Chaqueño al sur de Bolivia. Historia Natural y Guía Ilustrada de Flora y Fauna. Shell Bolivia Corporation, Sucursal Bolivia-GeoAmbiente Ltda., Departamentos de Tarija y Chuquisaca-Bolivia. 495 p
  • Peñaranda-Barrios, Efraín Miguel 2012. FAUNA SILVESTRE PLANTA DE GAS LA VERTIENTE -- GRAN CHACO TARIJEÑO, Provincia Gran Chaco - Tarija. BG Bolivia Corporation Suc. Bolivia, GeoAmbiente Ltda., Villa Montes-Bolivia. 353 p.
  • Scrocchi G J. Cruz F B. 1993. Description of a new species of the genus Lystrophis Cope and a revalidation of Lystrophis pulcher (Jan, 1863), (Serpentes; Colubridae). Pap. Avul. Zool., Sao Paulo 38 (10): 171-185. - get paper here
  • Scrocchi, G.;Cruz, F. 1994. Descripción de una nueva especies de Lystrophis Cope y revalidación de Lystrophis pulcher (Jan, 1863) (Serpentes: Colubridae). Bol. Asoc. Herp. Argentina 10 (1): 47-48
  • 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.
  • Trutnau, L. 2005. Einige Bemerkungen zur Naturgeschichte, Pflege und Nachzucht der “Falschen Korallenschlange’ Lystrophis pulcher (JAN 1863). Herpetofauna 25 (142): 25-35 [2003/2004] - get paper here
  • 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.
  • Winchell, S. 2010. Die Reptilien Argentiniens. Reptilia (Münster) 15 (83): 20-27 - get paper here
  • Zaher, Hussam; Grazziotin, Felipe Gobbi; Cadle, John E.; Murphy, Robert W.; Moura-Leite, Julio Cesar de; Bonatto, Sandro L 2009. Molecular phylogeny of advanced snakes (Serpentes, Caenophidia) with an emphasis on South American Xenodontines: a revised classification and descriptions of new taxa. Pap. Avulsos Zool. (São Paulo) 49 (11): 115-153 - get paper here
 
External links  
Is it interesting? Share with others:


Please submit feedback about this entry to the curator