INVESTIGADORES
DI PIETRO Diego Omar
artículos
Título:
Serpentes, Dipsadidae, Echinantherini, Taeniophallus poecilopogon (Cope, 1863): Rediscovery in Argentina
Autor/es:
NENDA S. J.; DI PIETRO D. O.
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Año: 2009 vol. 5 p. 503 - 506
ISSN:
1809-127X
Resumen:
The colubrid snake genus Taeniophallus has a complex taxonomic history, and currently two species are considered to occur in Argentina: T. occipitalis and T. poecilopogon. Taeniophallus poecilopogon has the southernmost distribution of the genus, inhabiting open savannahs in Pampean and Espinal phytogeographic provinces, and is known from southern Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, and Uruguay. In Argentina T. poecilopogon has been reported in the literature for Buenos Aires, Corrientes, Entre Ríos, and Misiones provinces. Despite these multiple reports, specimens of T. poecilopogon from Argentina are poorly represented in herpetological collections, and only two specimens are known until now. One of them should be considered lost for the time being. The other voucher specimen represents a historical record of T. poecilopogon in Argentina. In the present contribution we report and describe the second specimen of T. poecilopogon from Argentina with precise locality and complete data.
