Psomophis obtusus
Appearance
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Serpentes |
Family: | Colubridae |
Genus: | Psomophis |
Species: | P. obtusus
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Binomial name | |
Psomophis obtusus (Cope, 1863)
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Psomophis obtusus, also known commonly as the wide ground snake and corredeira-do-banhado in Brazilian Portuguese, is a species of snake in the subfamily Dipsadinae of the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to South America.
Geographic range
[edit]P. obtusus is found in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Arzamendia, V.; Giraudo, A.; Scott, N.; Scrocchi, G. (2019). "Psomophis obtusus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T174102A61317837. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ Species Psomophis obtusus at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
Further reading
[edit]- Cope ED (1863). "Descriptions of new American SQUAMATA, in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia [15]: 100–106. (Rhadinæa obtusa, new species, pp. 101–102).