Mussurana (genus)

Mussurana is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae. The genus is endemic to South America.[1]

Not to be confused with Mussurana.

Mussurana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Subfamily: Dipsadinae
Genus: Mussurana
Zaher, Grazziotin, Cadle, Murphy, de Moura-Leite & Bonatto, 2009

Species and geographic ranges

The genus Mussurana contains the following species which are recognized as being valid.[1]

  • Mussurana bicolor (Peracca, 1904) – Argentina, southern Brazil, Paraguay, and Peru
  • Mussurana montana (Franco, Marques & Puorto, 1997) – southeastern Brazil
  • Mussurana quimi (Franco, Marques & Puorto, 1997) – northern Argentina, southeastern Brazil, and Paraguay

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Mussurana.

Etymology

The specific name, quimi, is in honor of Brazilian herpetologist Joaquim "Quim" Cavalheiro of the Instituto Butantan.[2]

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References
  1. Genus Mussurana at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Clelia quimi, p. 214).

Further reading
  • Zaher, Hussam; Grazziotin, Felipe Gobbi; Cadle, John E.; Murphy, Robert W.; de Moura-Leite, Julio Cesar; Bonatto, Sandro L. (2009). "Molecular phylogeny of advanced snakes (Serpentes, Caenophidia) with an emphasis on South American Xenodontines: a revised classification and descriptions of new taxa". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) 49 (11): 115–153. (Mussurana, new genus). (in English, with abstracts in English and Portuguese).


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