Xenodon guentheri BOULENGER, 1894

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Günther's False Fer-de-lance Portuguese: Boipeva, Chata, Cobra-Chata, Jararaca-Falsa
Synonym	Xenodon guentheri BOULENGER 1894: 147 Xenodon guentheri — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 323 Xenodon guentheri — WALLACH et al. 2014: 785 Xenodon guentheri — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019
Distribution	S Brazil Type locality: Lagos, Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Type: BMNH 1946.1.5.93 (and possibly additional specimens).
Diagnosis
Comment
Etymology	Named after Albert Günther (1830-1914), German-born zoologist at the British Museum.
References	Abegg, A.D., Deron, K. & Lhano, F.H. 2018. Xenodon guentheri (Günther's False Fer-de-lance) Defensive behavior. Herpetological Review 49 (1): 141-142. - get paper here Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Bérnils, R.S.; Batista, M.A. & Bertelli, P.W. 2001. Cobras e lagartos do Vale: levantamento das espécies de Squamata (Reptilia, Lepidosauria) da Bacia do Rio Itajai, Santa Catarina, Brasil. Rev. Est. Ambientais (Blumenau) 3 (1): 69-79 Boulenger, George A. 1894. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. British Mus. (Nat. Hist.), London, xi, 382 pp. - get paper here Eiselt, J. 1963. Zur Kenntnis der colubriden Schlangengattungen Procteria und Xenodon. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 66: 279-282 - get paper here 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 Morato, Sérgio Augusto Abrahão; Renato Silveira Bérnils, Julio Cesar de Moura-Leite 2017. RÉPTEIS DE CURITIBA: COLETÂNEA DE REGISTROS Hori Consultoria, Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil, 99 pp. 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 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.
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mrtHRPxZC-c/TuLpsuaowoI/AAAAAAAAWRc/Dvt69X09arg… Google images

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