Rhinobothryum lentiginosum

Rhinobothryum lentiginosum, commonly known as the Amazon banded snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to South America.

Rhinobothryum lentiginosum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Rhinobothryum
Species:
R. lentiginosum
Binomial name
Rhinobothryum lentiginosum
(Scopoli, 1785)
Synonyms[2]

Geographic range

R. lentiginosum is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela.[2]

References

  1. Cisneros-Heredia, D.F.; Gutierrez, P.; Renjifo, J.; Nogueira, C. de C.; Gagliardi, G.; Catenazzi, A.; Gonzales, L.; Schargel, W.; Rivas, G. (2020). "Rhinobothryum lentiginosum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T15183785A15183794. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T15183785A15183794.en. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
  2. Species Rhinobothryum lentiginosum at The Reptile Database

Further reading

  • 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. (Rhinobothryum lentiginosum, pp. 82–83).
  • Freiberg M (1982). Snakes of South America. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. ISBN 0-87666-912-7. (Rhinobothryum lentiginosum, p. 109).
  • Rojas-Morales, Julián Andrés (2012). "On the geographic distribution of the false coral snake, Rhinobothryum bovallii (Serpentes: Dipsadidae), in Colombia – a biogeographical perspective". Salamandra 48 (4): 243–248.
  • Scopoli, Ioannes Antonius (1785). Deliciae Florae et Faunae Insubricae seu Novae, aut Minus Cognitae Species Plantarum et Animalium quas in Insubria Austriaca ... Pars III [Volume 3]. Ticini. vi + 87 pp. + Plates I-XXV. (Coluber lentiginosus, new species, p. 41 + Plate XX, figure 2). (in Latin).


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