Taeniophallus nicagus (COPE, 1868)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Lygophis nicagus COPE 1868: 201 Rhadinaea nicaga — COPE 1885: 102 Liophis undulatus — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 180 Taeniophallus nicagus — MYERS & CADLE 1995 Taeniophallus nicagus — MYERS & MCDOWELL 2014: 41 Taeniophallus nicagus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 697 Taeniophallus nicagus — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019
Distribution	Suriname, Brazil (Pará, Amazonas), French Guiana Type locality: None given. “Brésil,” fide Jan and Sordelli, 1860-66: 11.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: unlocated, a 922 mm specimen (Wallach et al. 2014).
Diagnosis
Comment	There is some debate about species allocation to Taeniophallus. Listed as synonym of Liophis undulatus by PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970. Not listed by GASC & RODRIGUES 1980. Most species have been assigned to Echinanthera now. Distribution: Not listed for French Guiana by STARACE 1998. Type species: Lygophis nicagus COPE 1868: 201 is the type species of the genus Taeniophallus COPE 1895.
References	Cope, E.D. 1868. An examination of the Reptilia and Batrachia obtained by the Orton Expedition to Equador and the Upper Amazon, with notes on other species. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 20: 96-140 - get paper here Cope, E.D. 1886. Catalogue of the species of batrachians and reptiles contained in a collection made at Pebas, Upper Amazon, by John Hauxwell. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 23: 94-103 [1885] - get paper here Cope, E.D. 1895. The classification of the ophidia. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 18: 186-219 [1894] - get paper here Di BERNARDO, M. 1996. A new species of the neotropical snake genus Echinanthera COPE 1894 from southeastern Brazil (Serpentes, Coluridae). The Snake 27: 120-126 Gasc & Rodrigues 1980. Liste preliminaire des Serpents de la Guyane francaise. Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat. Paris 2 (4): 559-598 Jairam, Rawien 2017. The distribution of Taeniophallus nicagus (Colubridae) in Suriname with some information on morphology. IRCF Reptiles & Amphibians 24 (3): 177–179 - get paper here Morato, S.A.A.; Calixto, P.O.; Mendes, L.R.; Gomes, R.; Galatti, U.; Trein, F.L.; Oliveira, F.S.; Ferreira, G.N. 2014. Guia fotográfico de identificação da herpetofauna da Floresta Nacional de Saracá-Taquera, Estado do Pará. Curitiba: STCP Engenharia de Projetos Ltda.; Porto Trombetas: MRN – Mineração Rio do Norte S.A.; 213 p. - get paper here Morato, Sérgio Augusto Abrahão; Guilherme Nunes Ferreira; Michela Rossane Cavilha Scupino (eds.) 2018. Herpetofauna da Amazônia Central: Estudos na FLONA de Saracá-Taquera. Curitiba, Pr: STCP Engenharia de Projetos Ltda.; Porto Trombetas, Pa: MRN – Mineração Rio do Norte S.A., 2018.<br />210p. - get paper here Myers, C W. Cadle J E. 1994. A new genus for South American snakes related to Rhadinaea obtusa Cope (Colubridae) and resurrection of Taeniophallus Cope for the "Rhadinaea" brevirostris group. American Museum Novitates (3102): 1-33 - get paper here Myers, Charles W. and Samuel B. McDowell 2014. New Taxa and Cryptic Species of Neotropical Snakes (Xenodontinae), with Commentary on Hemipenes as Generic and Specific Characters. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 385 (1) : 1-112. - get paper here Nogueira, Cristiano C.; Antonio J.S. Argôlo, Vanesa Arzamendia, Josué A. Azevedo,<br />Fausto E. Barbo, Renato S. Bérnils, Bruna E. Bolochio, Marcio Borges-Martins,<br />Marcela Brasil-Godinho, Henrique Braz0, Marcus A. Buononato, Diego F. Cisnero 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 Starace, Fausto 2013. Guide des Serpents et Amphisbènes de Guyane. Ibis Rouge Editions, Matoury, Guyane, ISBN 978-2-84450-407-4 - 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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