World Species : Lygophis meridionalis (Lined Ground Snake)

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Lygophis meridionalis (Lined Ground Snake)

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Synonyms: Aporophis lineatus lativittatus; Aporophis lineatus meridionalis; Aporophis lineatus var. meridionalis; Liophis meridionalis; Lygophis lineatus (heterotypic)

Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]

70 grams

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Alta Paraná Atlantic forests	Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Apure-Villavicencio dry forests	Colombia, Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Araucaria moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Caatinga Enclaves moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Campos Rupestres montane savanna	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Caqueta moist forests	Brazil, Columbia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Catatumbo moist forests	Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Cauca Valley dry forests	Colombia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Cerrado	Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Chiquitano dry forests	Bolivia, Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Chocó-Darién moist forests	Colombia, Panama	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Eastern Panamanian montane forests	Colombia, Panama	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Guajira-Barranquilla xeric scrub	Colombia, Venezuela	Neotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Guianan Freshwater swamp forests	Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Guianan Highlands moist forests	Venezuela, Brazil, Guyana, Colombia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Guianan moist forests	Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Guianan savanna	Brazil, Guyana, Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Humid Chaco	Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Llanos	Colombia, Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Magdalena Valley dry forests	Colombia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Magdalena-Urabá moist forests	Colombia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Marajó varzea	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Maranhao Babatu forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Negro-Branco moist forests	Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Pantanal	Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay	Neotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Santa Marta montane forests	Colombia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Southern Cone Mesopotamian savanna	Argentina	Neotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Southwest Amazon moist forests	Peru, Brazil, Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Tocantins/Pindare moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Uruguayan savanna	Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands

Protected Areas

Name	IUCN Category	Area acres	Location
Estacion Biologica Beni Biosphere Reserve	VI	335178	Bolivia
Maracá Ecological Reserve	Ia	257554	Roraima, Brazil
Mburucuyá National Park	II		Corrientes, Argentina

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic
Atlantic Forest	Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay	No
Tropical Andes	Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela	No
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena	Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru	No

Prey / Diet

Leptodactylus fuscus (rufous frog)	^[2]
Scinax ruber (Red Snouted Treefrog)	^[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

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External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ ²Anurans as prey: an exploratory analysis and size relationships between predators and their prey, L. F. Toledo, R. S. Ribeiro & C. F. B. Haddad, Journal of Zoology 271 (2007) 170–177

Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database

Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0