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Elapomorphus quinquelineatus (RADDI, 1820)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Raddi's Lizard-eating Snake
Portuguese: Cabeça-Preta-Grande, Cobra-Cinco-Linhas 
SynonymColuber 5-lineatus RADDI 1820: 339
Elapomorphus accedens JAN 1862: 46
Calamaria Blumii SCHLEGEL 1837: 45
Elapocephalus taeniatus — GÜNTHER 1858: 276
Elapomorphus Blumii — JAN 1865
Elapomorphus Blumii — STRAUCH 1884: 551
Elapomorphus accedens — STRAUCH 1884: 560
Elapomorphus quinquelineatus — HOGE 1959: 46
Elapomorphus quinquelineatus — DE LEMA 2002
Elapomorphus quinquelineatus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 261
Elapomorphus quinquelineatus — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019 
DistributionE Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Rio de Janeiro)

Type locality: “Rio-Janeiro”  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: unlocated, formerly IRMC (G. Raddi, 1817– 1818). Hoge 1959 mentions two female types in RMNH and one female in MNHN.
Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.3.8 [taeniatus]
Syntypes: RMNH [blumii] 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1596 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentVenomous!

Synonymy: Freitas 2003: 86 considers quinquelineatus as a synonym of wuchereri.

Type species: Coluber 5-lineatus RADDI 1820: 339 is the type species of the genus Elapomorphus WIEGMANN in FITZINGER 1843. The genus is the the type genus of the tribe Elapomorphini which contains Apostolepis, Coronelaps, Elapomorphus, and Phalotris (fide Scrocchi et al. 2022).

Elapomorphini snakes are characterized by the following suite of characters: reduction of the number of supralabial scales to six; entire nasal plate; frontal bones dorsa- lly included by the anterior-lateral processes of the parietal and almost excluded from the reduced optic foramen; exoccipitals in contact on the dorsal surface of the condyle; second supralabial scale contacting the eye (Zaher et al., 2009, Scrocchi et al. 2022). 
EtymologyNamed after Latin quinque = five, and linea = line.

The genus was possibly named after Greek elapos (ἐλαπρός), barbarism for ἐλαφρός, lightly, buoyantly + Greek morpha (μορφά), bodily form, build. 
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