Phimophis guianensis, also known commonly as Troschel's pampas snake, is a species of snake in the subfamily Dipsadinae of the family Colubridae.[5] The species is endemic to South America.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Genus: | Phimophis |
| Species: | P. guianensis
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| Phimophis guianensis | |
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Geographic range
editPhimophis guianensis has been reported from Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Suriname, and Venezuela.[1]
Habitat
editThe preferred natural habitats of P. guianensis are shrubland and savanna, at altitudes from sea level to 250 m (820 ft).[1]
Description
editPhimophis guianensis may attain a total length of 103 cm (41 in), which includes a tail 16 cm (6.3 in) long.[4]
Reproduction
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d Ibáñez, R.; Jaramillo, C.; Gutiérrez-Cárdenas, P.; Rivas, G.; Caicedo, J.; Arredondo, J.C.; Nogueira, C.; Hoogmoed, M. (2019). "Phimophis guianensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T203559A2768446. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T203559A2768446.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ Troschel, Franz Hermann (1848). "Amphibien ". In Schomburgk, Moritz Richard (ed.). Reisen in Britisch-Guiana in den Jahren 1840-44. Vol. 3. (Heterodon guianensis, new species, p. 653).
- ^ a b Species Phimophis guianensis at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ a b Boulenger GA (1896). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III. Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphæ and Proteroglyphæ) ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I–XXV. (Rhinostoma guianense, pp. 114–115).
- ^ "Oldstyle id: bf06e4bbabfd6aaf92a92ace4a4fea73". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands.
Further reading
edit- Cope ED (1860). "Catalogue of Colubridæ in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. I. Calamarinæ". Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 12: 74–79. (Phimophis, new genus, p. 79).
- Freiberg M (1982). Snakes of South America. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. ISBN 0-87666-912-7. (Genus Phimophis, p. 107).
- Griffin LE (1916). "A Catalog of the Ophidia from South America at Present (June, 1916) Contained in the Carnegie Museum with Descriptions of some New Species". Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum 7 (3): 163–228 + Plate XXVIII. (Rhinostoma guianense, p. 214).
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