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Tachymenis peruviana WIEGMANN, 1834

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Peru Slender Snake
S: Culebra de cola corta del norte, Cola corta del Perú 
SynonymTachymenis peruviana WIEGMANN 1834: 252
Psammophylax assimilis JAN 1863
Tachymenis peruviana — COPE 1878: 33
Tachymenis peruviana — BOULENGER 1896 (3): 118 (part.)
Tachymenis peruviana var. dorsalis WERNER 1901: 9
Leimadophis andicolus BARBOUR 1915: 149
Tachymenis chilensis melanura WALKER 1945: 35
Tachymenis chilensis assimilis — WALKER 1945: 32
Tachymenis peruviana peruviana — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970
Tachymenis peruviana yutoensis MIRANDA & COUTURIER 1981
Tachymenis peruviana — CEI 1993
Tachymenis peruviana — LEHR 2002: 97
Tachymenis peruviana — WALLACH et al. 2014: 696 
DistributionW Peru (Ancahs, Ayacucho, Junín, La Libertad, Puno, Huánuco: [HR 31: 187]), NE Chile (andean region of Tarapacá, Antofagasta), Bolivia, Argentina (Jujuy, La Rioja, Salta, Tucumán, Catamarca). Elevation 2600-2980 m (up to 4000 m fide WERNING & WOLF 2007).

Type locality: Not specified in original description. “Peru” fide SCHMIDT & WALKER 1943.  
Reproductionovovivparous 
TypesHolotype: ZMB, probably a female fide Walker, 1945: 15 (F.J.F. Meyen, 1830-1832).
Holotype: MCZ 10987 [andicolus]
Holotype: MACN 2632, male, paratypes: MACN [yutoensis] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (genus): Walker 1945: 44


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CommentVenomous!

Synonymy after CEI 1993.

Type species: Tachymenis peruviana WIEGMANN 1834 is the type species of the genus Tachymenis WIEGMANN 1834.

Key: Walker 1945: 52 presents a key to the species of Tachymenis peruviana complex (and keys out the attenuata and chilensis complexes).

Diet: mostly frogs and lizards (Walker 1945: 48) 
EtymologyNamed after its distribution in Peru.

The genus was probably named after Greek tachys (ταχύς), quick, swift + Greek menis (μῆνις), wrath, anger. 
References
  • Barbour,T. 1915. A new snake from Southern Peru. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 28: 149-150 - get paper here
  • Carrillo de Espinoza, Nelly & Icochea, Javier 1995. Lista taxonomica preliminar de los reptiles vivientes del Peru. Publicaciones del Museo de Historia Natural “Javier Prado”, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Serie A, Zoología (49): 1–27
  • CATENAZZI, A., LEHR, E. & VON MAY, R. 2013. The amphibians and reptiles of Manu National Park and its buffer zone, Amazon basin and eastern slopes of the Andes, Peru. Biota Neotropica 13 (4): 269-283
  • Cei, J. M. 1993. Reptiles del noroeste, nordeste y este de la Argentina. Museo Regionale Sci. Naturale Torino, Monografie 14: 1-949
  • Cope, E.D. 1878. Synopsis of the cold blooded Vertebrata, procured by Prof. James Orton, during his exploration of Peru in 1876-77. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 17: 33-49 [1877] - get paper here
  • Demangel, Diego 2016. Reptiles en Chile. Fauna Nativa Ediciones, Santiago, 619 pp - get paper here
  • Gallardo G A, Nenda S J, Scrocchi Manfrini G J 2019. Tachymenis peruviana Wiegmann, 1834 (Serpentes, Dipsadidae) in Argentina: geographic distribution and a new province record. Check List 15(1): 7-12 - get paper here
  • Koslowsky,J. 1896. Sobre algunos reptiles de Patagonia y otras regiones argentinas. Revista Mus. La Plata 7: 447-457 - get paper here
  • Lehr, E. 2002. Amphibien und Reptilien in Peru. Natur und Tier-Verlag (Münster), 208 pp. - get paper here
  • Mella-Ávila, Jorge E. & Michael Venegas Ponce. 2019. Distribución, frecuencia y abundancia de reptiles en distintos ambientes de la Región de Tarapacá, norte de Chile. Boletín Chileno de Herpetología. 6: 23-33 - get paper here
  • Miranda, B., et al. 2017. Tachymenis peruviana Reproduction. Herpetological Review 48 (2): 459 - get paper here
  • Miranda, Bruno, Sofia Lottersberger, James Aparicio, Álvaro J. Aguilar-Kirigin, Mauricio Ocampo and Luis F. Pacheco. 2015. Tachymenis peruviana diet. Herpetological Review 46 (4): 651 - get paper here
  • Nicolay, H. 1995. Das Portrait - Tachymenis peruviana Wiegmann. Sauria 17 (4): 1-2 - get paper here
  • Ortiz, J. C. 1973. Etude sur le statut taxinomique de Tachymenis peruviana Wiegmann et Tachymenis chilensis (Schlegel)(Serpentes: Colubridae). Bulletin du Museum National D'histoire Naturelle 3 (116): 1021-1039
  • Paredes, M., B. Miranda, J. Aparicio and L. F. Pacheco 2016. Tachymenis peruviana underwater hunting behavior. Herpetological Review 47(3): 412. - get paper here
  • Ramírez Leyton, G. & Pincheira Donoso, D. 2005. Fauna del Altiplano y Desierto de Atacama. Phrynosaura Ediciones, 395 pp.
  • Ramírez Leyton, G.M. 2009. WILDLIFE OF THE HIGH ANDES AND ATACAMA DESERT - A Field Guide to the El Loa Province. Phrynosaura Ediciones, Calama, Chile, 250 pp.
  • REYES-OLIVARES, CLAUDIO; ALEX VERA-QUISPE, ALEJANDRO ZÚÑIGA & FÉLIX A. URRA. 2022. Description of the antipredatory head-wobble behaviour in Chilean rear-fanged snakes Tachymenis peruviana Wiegmann, 1835 and Tachymenis chilensis coronellina Werner, 1898 (Serpentes, Dipsadidae). Herpetozoa 35: 155–158. - get paper here
  • Schmidt, Karl P. & Walker, Warren F. 1943. Peruvian snakes from the University of Arequipa. Zoological Series of Field Museum of Zoology 24 (26): 279-296 - get paper here
  • Scrocchi, G.J.; Moreta, J.C. & Kretzschmar, S. 2006. Serpientes del Noroeste Argento [Jujuy, Salta, Tucumán, Catamarca, La Rioja, Santiago del Estero]. Fundación Miguel Lillo, Tucumán, 178 pp.
  • Valenzuela-Dellarossa, Gustavo; Herman Núñez, Christoph Heibl and Juan Carlos Ortiz 2010. Reptilia, Serpentes, Colubridae, Tachymenis Wiegmann, 1836: Latitudinal and altitudinal distribution extension in Chile. Check List 6 (1): 005-006 - get paper here
  • Walker, W.F. 1945. A Study of the Snake, Tachymenis peruviana Wiegmann AND ITS Allies. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 96: 1-56 - 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.
  • Werner, F. 1910. Abh. Ber. k. zool. anthr. ethn. Mus. Dresden 9: 9 - get paper here
  • Werner, FRANZ 1901. Reptilien und Batrachier aus Peru und Bolivien. Abhandl. Ber. Zool. Anthrop. Mus. Dresden, 9 (2): 1-14 [1900] - get paper here
  • Werning, H. & Wolf, C. 2007. Gebirge und Hochland - Reptilien und Amphibien in einem extremen Lebensraum. Draco 7 (27): 4-27 - get paper here
  • Wiegmann, A. F. A. 1834. In: Dr. F. J. F. Meyen: Beiträge zur Zoologie gesammelt auf einer Reise um die Erde. Siebente Abhandlung. Amphibien. Nova Acta Physico-Medica Academia Caesarea Leopoldino-Carolina (Halle) 17: 185-268 [1835] - get paper here
 
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