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Tachymenis ocellata DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL, 1854

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Ocellated Pampas Snake
S: Falsa Yarara
Portuguese: Cobra-Espada-Pampeana, Cobra-Espada-Pintada, Falsa-Cruzeira, Jararaquinha-Pintada 
SynonymTomodon ocellatum DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL 1854: 938
Tomodon ocellatus — BOULENGER 1886: 435
Tomodon ocellatus — BOULENGER 1896 (3): 121
Tomodon ocellatus — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970
Tomodon ocellatus — FREIBERG 1982
Tomodon ocellatus — CEI 1993
Tomodon ocellatus — LEHR 2002: 205
Tomodon ocellatus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 731
Tomodon ocellatus — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019
Tachymenis ocellata — TREVINE et al. 2022 
DistributionS Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul), Paraguay, Uruguay,
Argentina (Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Santa Fe, Entre Rios, Corrientes, Misiones), Peru.

Type locality: Brazil.  
Reproductionovovivparous 
TypesHolotype: RMNH RENA.235, a 425 mm specimen (donated from MNHN). 
Diagnosis 
CommentDistribution: This species has been reported from Peru, but without specific locality (T. Doan, pers. comm. 30 Apr 2012). See map in Nogueira et al. 2019. 
EtymologyNamed after Latin ocellata, having ocelli, little eyes or buttonholes (in the sense of round spots). (Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., April 2024) 
References
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1886. A synopsis of the reptiles and batrachians of the province Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5) 18: 423-445 - get paper here
  • Cabral, H. & Caballero, A. 2013. CONFIRMACIÓN DE TOMODON OCELLATUS DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL, 1854 Y PRIMER EJEMPLAR DE REFERENCIA DE MICRURUS SILVIAE DI-BERNARDO, BORGES-MARTINS & SILVA, 2007 PARA PARAGUAY. Bol. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Parag. 17 (1): 63-66
  • 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
  • Carreira Vidal, Santiago 2002. Alimentación de los ofidios de Uruguay. Asoc. Herp. Esp., Monograf. Herp. 6, 127 pp. - get paper here
  • Carreira, S.; Brazeiro, A.; Camargo, A.; da Rosa, I.; Canavero, A. & Maneyro, M. 2012. DIVERSITY OF REPTILES OF URUGUAY: KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION GAPS. Bol. Soc. Zool. Uruguay (2a época) 21 (1-2): 9-29 - get paper here
  • Duméril, A. M. C., Bibron, G. & DUMÉRIL, A. H. A., 1854. Erpétologie générale ou histoire naturelle complète des reptiles. Tome septième. Deuxième partie, comprenant l'histoire des serpents venimeux. Paris, Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret: i-xii + 781-1536 - get paper here
  • Freiberg, M.A. 1982. Snakes of South America. T.F.H. Publications, Neptune City, NJ, 189 pp. - get paper here
  • Gallardo, J.M. 1972. Observaciones biologicas sobre una falsa Yarara, Tomodon ocellatus Dumeril, Bibron et Dumeril (Reptilia, Ophidia). Neotropica 18 (56): 57-63
  • 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
  • Harvey, M.B. & Muñoz S., A. 2004. A new species of Tomodon (Serpentes: Colubridae) from high elevations in the Bolivian Andes. Herpetologica 60 (3): 364-372 - get paper here
  • Jauch, H. 1979. Brasilianische Schlangen im Terrarium. Herpetofauna 1 (1): 6-9 - get paper here
  • Lehr, E. 2002. Amphibien und Reptilien in Peru. Natur und Tier-Verlag (Münster), 208 pp. - get paper here
  • Müller, Friedrich 1881. Zweiter Nachtrag zum Katalog der herpetologischen Sammlung des Basler Museums [1881 printed on paper]. Verh. naturf. Ges. Basel 7 (2): 166-174. - get paper here
  • 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
  • Trevine, V. C., Grazziotin, F. G., Giraudo, A., Sallesbery‐Pinchera, N., Vianna, J. A., & Zaher, H. 2022. The systematics of Tachymenini (Serpentes, Dipsadidae): An updated classification based on molecular and morphological evidence. Zoologica Scripta - get paper here
  • Vera, David G, Diego O Di Pietro, Clara Trofino Falasco, Germán Tettamanti, Luciana Iriarte, Micaela Harkes, Federico P Kacoliris, and Igor Berkunsky. 2022. Identifying Key Conservation Sites for the Reptiles of the Tandilia Mountains in Pampas Highlands. Journal for Nature Conservation, 126321 - 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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