| Higher Taxa | Colubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Fanged Water Snake
Portuguese: Cobra-D’água, Cobra-D’água-Serrana, Cobra-Espada-de-Água |
| Synonym | Ptychophis flavovirgatus GOMES 1915: 127
Paraptychophis meyeri LEMA 1967
Paratychophis flavovirgatus
Ptychophis flavovirgatus — SCARTOZZONI & MARQUES 2004
Ptychophis flavovirgatus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 618
Ptychophis flavovirgatus — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019
Ptychophis flavovirgatus — TREVINE et al. 2022 |
| Distribution | Brazil (Santa Catarina, Parana, Rio Grande do Sul)
Type locality: "São Bento, Estado de Santa Catharina, Brazil." [=São Bento do Sul, northeastern Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil, 26˚15'S, 49˚23'W].
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| Reproduction | ovovivparous |
| Types | Holotype: IBSP (= IB) 526, a 510 mm male (A. Swarowsky, April 1914). |
| Diagnosis | Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (3086 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
| Comment | Belongs to the Tachymenini, together with 6 other genera (BAILEY 1967).
Type species: Ptychophis flavovirgatus GOMES 1915 is the type species of the genus Ptychophis GOMES 1915. |
| Etymology | Named after Latin flavus, golden yellow, reddish yellow, flaxen-colored, blonde + Latin virgatus, that has bars or bands of colour, streaked, striped. (Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., April 2024) |
| References |
- Bailey, Joseph R. 1967. The synthetic approach to colubrid classification. Herpetologica 23 (2): 155-161 - get paper here
- Gomes, J.F. 1915. Contribuição para o conhecimento dos ophidios do Brasil. 1. Descrição de quatro especies novas e um novo Gênero de opisthóglyphos. 2. Ophidios do Museu Rocha (Ceará). Ann. Paulistas Med. & Chirurg. 4 (6): 121-129
- 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
- Kunz, Tobias Saraiva;<br>Ivo Rohling Ghizoni-Jr.,<br>Walter Luis Alves dos Santos & Paulo Afonso Hartmann 2007. Nota sobre a coleção herpetológica da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC). Biotemas, 20 (3): 127-132 - get paper here
- Lema, Th. de 1967. Novo gênero e espécie de serpente opistoglifodonte do Brasil Meridional (Colubridae, Boiginae). Iheringia (Zool.) (35): 61-74
- Lema, Thales de;Hofstadler Deiques, Clarice 1992. Contribuicao ao conhecimento da "Cobra espada d'Agua", Ptychophis flavovirgatus Gomes, (Serpentes, Colubridae, Xenodontinae, Tachymenini). Comun. Mus. Cienc. PUCRS, ser. zool. 5 (6): 55-83
- 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
- Porto,M. & Caramaschi,U. 1988. Notes on the taxonomic status, biology, and distribution of Ptychophis flavovirgatus GOMES 1915 (Ophidia, Colubridae). Ann. Acad. bras. Ci. 60 (4): 471-475 - get paper here
- Scartozzoni, Rodrigo R. & Otavio A. V. Marques 2004. Sexual dimorphism, reproductive cycle, and fecundity of the Brazilian water snake Ptychophis flavovirgatus (Serpentes, Colubridae). Phyllomedusa 3 (1): 69-73 - 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.
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