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Xenodon nattereri (STEINDACHNER, 1867)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesPortuguese: Achatadeira, Boipeva, Cobra-Nariguda, Cobra-Nariguda-do-Campo, Falsa-Jararaca, Nariguda 
SynonymHeterodon nattereri STEINDACHNER 1867: 90
Lystrophis nattereri — HOGE 1976
Lystrophis nattereri — SCROCCHI & CRUZ 1993
Lystrophis nattereri — FRANCA et al. 2008
Xenodon nattereri — ZAHER et al. 2009
Lystrophis nattereri — WALLACH et al. 2014: 407
Xenodon nattereri — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019 
DistributionS Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul, Bahia, Piauí etc.), NE Argentina (Misiones, Corrientes, Chaco), NE Uruguay, Paraguay

Type locality: Brazil  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: NMW 23378 
Diagnosis 
CommentSynonymy partly after CEI 1993. HOGE et al. (1975) revalidated L. nattereri. However, subsequent authors still considered it as synonym of L. histricus.

Distribution: See map in Nogueira et al. 2019. 
EtymologyNamed after Johannes Natterer (1787-1843), ornithologist, and custos at the Natural History Cabinet in Vienna, and collector of the type. See Bastos & Sa 2011 for further biographical details. 
References
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  • 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
  • BRASILEIRO, Cinthia Aguirre ; MARTINS, M. ; KIEFER, Mara Cintia 2003. Lystrophis nattereri (NCN). Predation. Herpetological Review 34 (1): 70-70 - get paper here
  • Cacciali P, Ortega C 2023. First record of Xenodon nattereri (Steindachner, 1869) (Reptilia, Squamata, Dipsadidae) from Paraguay. Check List 19(2): 231-234 - get paper here
  • Cei, J. M. 1993. Reptiles del noroeste, nordeste y este de la Argentina. Museo Regionale Sci. Naturale Torino, Monografie 14: 1-949
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  • Franca, F.G.R.; Daniel O. Mesquita, Cristiano C. Nogueira, and Alexandre F. B. Araújo 2008. Phylogeny and Ecology Determine Morphological Structure in a Snake Assemblage in the Central Brazilian Cerrado. Copeia 2008 (1): 23-38 - get paper here
  • Gemel, R.; G. Gassner & S. Schweiger 2019. Katalog der Typen der Herpetologischen Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien – 2018. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, B 121: 33–248
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  • Hoge, A.R.; Cordeiro, C.L. & Lemos Romano, S.A. 1976. Posição taxonomica de Lystrophis nattereri (Steindachner). Mem. Inst. Butantan 39 [1975]: 37-50 - get paper here
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  • 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
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