Mussurana (genus)
Mussurana is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae. The genus is endemic to South America.[1]
| 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]
References
- Genus Mussurana at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- 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).
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.