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Rhinobothryum lentiginosum (SCOPOLI, 1785)

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Amazon Banded Snake
Portuguese: Cobra-Coral, Coral, Falsa-Coral 
SynonymColuber Lentiginosus SCOPOLI 1785
Coluber macrorhinus WAGLER 1830: 186
Rhinobothryum lentiginosum — DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL 1854: 1061
Rhinobothryum lentiginosum — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 269
Rhinobothryum lentiginosum — GASC & RODRIGUES 1980
Rhinobotryum lentiginosum — CUNHA et al. 1985 (in error)
Rhinobothryum lentiginosum — KORNACKER 1999: 132
Rhinobothryum lentiginosum — ROJAS-MORALES 2012
Rhinobothryum lentiginosum — WALLACH et al. 2014: 647
Rhinobotrium lentiginosum — VAZ-SILVA et al. 2015 (in error)
Rhinobothryum lentiginosum — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019 
DistributionBrazil (Rondonia, Mato Grosso, Acre, Pará etc.), Venezuela [HR 27: 154], French Guiana, Guyana, Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru (Ucayali [HR 31: 57], Tambopata, Madre de Dios: [HR 31: 188]), N Bolivia (Pando, La Paz, Beni)

Type locality: none given by SCOPOLI 1785  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: nondesignated, a 1030 mm specimen (fide V. Wallach, pers. comm.) 
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CommentSynonymy that of PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 269. The name Coluber macrorhinus has been credited to BOIE by WAGLER, but there seems to be no publication by BOIE describing it.

Distribution: Erroneously reported from Paraguay (fide Cacciali et al. 2016). See map in Nogueira et al. 2019.

Type species: Coluber Lentiginosus SCOPOLI 1785 (1788 fide WALLACH et al. 2014: 647) is the type species of the genus Rhinobothryum WAGLER 1830.

Habitat: partly arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 
EtymologyNamed after Latin lentiginosus, lentil-shaped spot; freckle. (Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., April 2024)

The genus was named after Greek rhinos (ρύγχος), snout, nose + Greek bothros (βόθρος), pit, hole, trench 
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