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Ptychophis flavovirgatus (Fanged Water Snake)

Synonyms: Paraptychophis meyeri; Paratychophis flavovirgatus; Ptychophis meyeri

Attributes

Litter Size [1]  7

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Araucaria moist forests Brazil Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Uruguayan savanna Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Atlantic Forest Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay No

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Sexual dimorphism, reproductive cycle, and fecundity of the water snake Ptychophis flavovirgatus (Serpentes, Colubridae), Rodrigo R. Scartozzoni and Otavio A. V. Marques, Phyllomedusa 3(1):69-71, 2004
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