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Echinanthera melanostigma (WAGLER, 1824)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae, Echinantherini), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesPortuguese: Cobrinha-Cipó, Cobra-do-Folhiço, Jararaquinha-do-Campo, Papa-Rã 
SynonymNatrix melanostigma WAGLER 1824: 17
? Dromicus Pleii — DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL 1854: 661
Dromicus pleii — GÜNTHER 1858
Dromicus melanostigma — JAN & SORDELLI 1867
Dromicus (Alsophis) maculivittis PETERS 1877: 458 [?]
Aporophis cyanopleurus COPE 1885: 191 (fide PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970)
Dromicus pleii — GARMAN 1887: 281
Dromicus melanostigma — BOULENGER 1886: 433
Liophis melanostigma — BOULENGER 1894
Leimadophis melanostigma — AMARAL 1929: 166
Leimadophis melanostigma — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 144
Liophis melanostigma (incertae sedis) — DIXON 1980
Leimadophis melanostigma — HOOEGMOED & GRUBER 1983
Echinanthera melanostigma — DI-BERNARDO 1992
Echinanthera melanostigma — SCHARGEL et al. 2005
Echinanthera melanostigma — WALLACH et al. 2014: 253
Echinanthera melanostigma — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019 
DistributionBrazil (SE Bahia, southwards through Espirito Santo, SE Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro and CE Sao Paulo)

Type locality: “Habitat in provincia Bahiae” [Brazil, former province of Bahia, part of the present state of Bahia] according to the original description and Vanzolini (1981).  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesLectotype: ZSM 199/0, male, collected by Spix and Martius expedition to Brazil, 1817-1820; lectotype designated by HOOGMOED & GRUBER 1983. 
Diagnosis 
Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Greek melanos (μέλανος), black + Greek stigma (στιγμή), a spot, point. (WAGLER 1824, Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., April 2024) 
References
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