Siphlophis leucocephalus (GÜNTHER, 1863)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Common Spotted Night Snake Portuguese: Cobra-Cipó, Dormideira
Synonym	Leptodira leucocephalus GÜNTHER 1863: 23 Lycognathus rhombeatus — BOULENGER 1896: 58 Siphlophis leucocephalus — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 281 Siphlophis leucocephalus — ZAHER & PRUDENTE 1999 Siphlophis leucocephalus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 679 Siphlophis leucocephalus — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019
Distribution	Brazil (Bahia, Goias, Minas Gerais) Type locality: Bahia, Brazil
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Type: BMNH 1946.9.7.25 (and possibly additional specimens).
Diagnosis
Comment	Habitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018).
References	Boulenger, G.A. 1896. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum, Vol. 3. London (Taylor & Francis), xiv + 727 pp. - get paper here De Carvalho, B.T., Filho, L.M.C. & Argolo, A.J.S. 2017. Siphlophis leucocephalus (Common Spotted Night Snake) Defensive behavior. Herpetological Review 48 (4): 867-868 - get paper here Freitas, M.A.; D. Veríssimo; V. Uhlig. 2012. Squamate Reptiles of the central Chapada Diamantina, with a focus on the municipality of Mucugê, state of Bahia, Brazil. Check List 8(1):16-22 - 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 GUEDES, THAÍS B.; CRISTIANO NOGUEIRA & OTAVIO A. V. MARQUES 2014. Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 001–093 - get paper here Günther,A. 1863. On new species of snakes in the collection of the British Museum. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) 11: 20-25 - get paper here Hamdan, B. & R. M. Lira-da-Silva 2012. The snakes of Bahia State, northeastern Brazil: species richness, composition and biogeographical notes. Salamandra 48 (1): 31-50 - get paper here Harrington, Sean M; Jordyn M de Haan, Lindsey Shapiro, Sara Ruane 2018. Habits and characteristics of arboreal snakes worldwide: arboreality constrains body size but does not affect lineage diversification. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 125 (1): 61–71 - get paper here Nogueira, Cristiano C.; Antonio J.S. Argôlo, Vanesa Arzamendia, Josué A. Azevedo, Fausto E. Barbo, Renato S. Bérnils, Bruna E. Bolochio, Marcio Borges-Martins, Marcela Brasil-Godinho, Henrique Braz, Marcus A. Buononato, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, 2019. Atlas of Brazilian snakes: verified point-locality maps to mitigate the Wallacean shortfall in a megadiverse snake fauna. South American J. Herp. 14 (Special Issue 1):1-274 - get paper here Solé, Mirco 2018. Die Entdeckung neuer Bromelienfrösche im Süden von Bahia. Terraria-Elaphe 2018 (1): 50-53 [2017] - 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. & Prudente, L.C. 1999. Intraspecific variation of the hemipenis in Siphlophis and Tripanurgos. Journal of Herpetology 33 (4): 698-702 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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