Paraphimophis rusticus (COPE, 1878)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Culebra Portuguese: Bicuda, Muçurana, Muçurana-Comum-do-Pampa, Muçurana-Marrom, Muçurana-Pampeana, Muçurana-Parda
Synonym	Oxyrrhopus rusticus COPE 1878: 92 Pseudoboa rustica SERIÉ 1921 Clelia rustica — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970 Clelia rustica — FREIBERG 1982 Clelia rustica — CEI 1993 Clelia rustica — LEYNAUD & BUCHER 1999: 17 Clelia rustica — SCROCCHI et al. 2010: 210 Clelia rustica — ZAHER et al. 2011 Clelia rustica — CARREIRA et al. 2012 Paraphimophis rusticus — GRAZZIOTIN et al. 2012 Paraphimophis rusticus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 532 Paraphimophis rustica — MINOLI et al. 2015 Paraphimophis rusticus — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019
Distribution	Brazil (S Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul), Uruguay, Bolivia ? (LEYNAUD & BUCHER 1999), Argentina (Santiago del Estero, Córdoba, Corrientes, Misiones, Entre Rios, Santa Fe, Buenos Aires, Rio Negro, Chubut) Type locality: unknown; supposedly in the Argentine confederation (fide ZAHER 1996).
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: ANSP 11326
Diagnosis	Diagnosis (genus): Anterolaterally divergent anterior tips of the nasals and enlarged nasal processes of the premaxillae, but no specialized spatulate rostral scale; young specimens with a dark head, a faint pale whitish or orange nuchal collar, a dark vertebral band and reddish flanks; adults with a uniform brown dorsum [GRAZZIOTIN et al. 2012].
Comment	Type species: Oxyrrhopus rusticus COPE 1878 is the type species of the genus Paraphimophis ZAHER, GRAZZIOTIN, MURPHY, SCROCCHI, ALTAMIRANO, BENAVIDES, ZHANG & BONATTO in GRAZZIOTIN et al. 2012. Distribution: May not be in Bolivia; while LEYNAUD & BUCHER 1999 show it on their map there do not appear to be any voucher specimens from Bolivia. Probably not in Paraguay (Cacciali et al. 2016). See map in Nogueira et al. 2019.
Etymology	From the Greek ‘‘para’’ and Phimophis, meaning near the genus Phimophis.
References	Alcalde, L., Cassano, M.J., Sánchez, R.M. & Belén-Tenorio, A. 2019. Species composition, abundance and diet of a squamate assemblage from the Carnaval stream headwaters (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Urban Ecosyst - get paper here Bellini, G. P., Arzamendia, V. and Giraudo, A. R. 2016. Is xenodontine snake reproduction shaped by ancestry, more than by ecology? Ecology and Evolution 00: 1–9. doi: 10.1002/ece3.2557 - get paper here Bellini, Gisela Paola; Vanesa Arzamendia and Alejandro Raúl Giraudo 2019. Reproductive life history of snakes in temperate regions: what are the differences between oviparous and viviparous species? Amphibia-Reptilia 40 (3): 291–303 - get paper here Carreira Vidal, Santiago 2002. Alimentación de los ofidios de Uruguay. Asoc. Herp. Esp., Monograf. Herp. 6, 127 pp. - get paper here Carreira, S.; Brazeiro, A.; Camargo, A.; da Rosa, I.; Canavero, A. & Maneyro, M. 2012. DIVERSITY OF REPTILES OF URUGUAY: KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION GAPS. Bol. Soc. Zool. Uruguay (2a época) 21 (1-2): 9-29 - get paper here Cope, E.D. 1878. Tenth contribution to the herpetology of Tropical America. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 17: 85-98 [1877] - get paper here Costa, Henrique Caldeira & Renato Silveira Bérnils 2015. Répteis brasileiros: lista de espécies 2015. Herpetologia Brasileira 4 (3): 75-93 Giraudo, Alejandro R.;Arzamendia, Venesa 1997. Geographic Distribution. Clelia rustica. Herpetological Review 28 (3): 158-159 - get paper here Gonzalez R. C. et al. 2020. Lista dos Nomes Populares dos Répteis no Brasil – Primeira Versão. Herpetologia Brasileira 9 (2): 121 – 214 - get paper here Grazziotin, Felipe G.; Hussam Zaher, Robert W. Murphy, Gustavo Scrocchi, Marco A. Benavides, Ya-Ping Zhang and Sandro L. Bonatto 2012. Molecular phylogeny of the New World Dipsadidae (Serpentes: Colubroidea): a reappraisal. 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Fundación Miguel Lillo, Tucumán, 178 pp. Scrocchi, Gustavo J.; Cristian S. Abdala,Javier Nori, Hussam Zaher 2010. Reptiles de la provincia de Río Negro, Argentina. Fondo Ed. Rionegrino, 249 pp. Silveira, Adriano Lima. 2014. Geographic Distribution: Paraphimophis rusticus. Herpetological Review 45 (1): 96 - get paper here Vera, David G, Diego O Di Pietro, Clara Trofino Falasco, Germán Tettamanti, Luciana Iriarte, Micaela Harkes, Federico P Kacoliris, and Igor Berkunsky. 2022. Identifying Key Conservation Sites for the Reptiles of the Tandilia Mountains in Pampas Highlands. Journal for Nature Conservation, 126321 - get paper here Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp. Zaher, H. 1996. A new genus and species of pseudoboine snake, with a revision of the genus Clelia (Serpentes, Xenodontinae). Boll. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. 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