Phimophis guianensis

Phimophis guianensis
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Phimophis
Species:	P. guianensis
Binomial name
Phimophis guianensis (Troschel, 1848) [2]
Synonyms [3] [4]
Heterodon guianensis Troschel, 1848 Rhinostoma guntheri Cope, 1860 Rhinostoma guianense — Boulenger, 1896 Rhinostoma guianensis — Bocourt, 1897 Phimophis guianensis — Dunn, 1944

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]

Geographic range

Phimophis guianensis has been reported from Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Suriname, and Venezuela. ^[1]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of P. guianensis are shrubland and savanna, at altitudes from sea level to 250 m (820 ft). ^[1]

Description

Phimophis guianensis may attain a total length of 103 cm (41 in), which includes a tail 16 cm (6.3 in) long. ^[4]

Reproduction

Phimophis guianensis is oviparous. ^[3]

References

1. 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.
2. 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).
3. Species Phimophis guianensis at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
4. 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).
5. "Oldstyle id: bf06e4bbabfd6aaf92a92ace4a4fea73". Catalogue of Life . Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands.

Further reading

• Cope ED (1860). "Catalogue of Colubridæ in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. I. Calamarinæ". Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia12: 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 Museum7 (3): 163–228 + Plate XXVIII. (Rhinostoma guianense, p. 214).