Biology:Mussurana (genus)

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Short description: Genus of snakes

Mussurana
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Subfamily: Dipsadinae
Genus: Mussurana
Zaher, Grazziotin, Cadle, Murphy, de Moura-Leite & Bonatto, 2009

Mussurana is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae. The genus is endemic to South America.[1]

Species and geographic ranges

The genus Mussurana contains the following species which are recognized as being valid.[1]

  • Mussurana bicolor (Peracca, 1904)Argentina , southern Brazil , Paraguay, and Peru - two-colored mussurana
  • Mussurana montana (Franco, Marques & Puorto, 1997) – southeastern Brazil
  • Mussurana quimi (Franco, Marques & Puorto, 1997) – northern Argentina, southeastern Brazil, and Paraguay

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Mussurana.

Etymology

The specific name, quimi, is in honor of Brazilian herpetologist Joaquim "Quim" Cavalheiro of the Instituto Butantan.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Genus Mussurana at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN:978-1-4214-0135-5. (Clelia quimi, p. 214).

Further reading

  • Zaher, Hussam; Grazziotin, Felipe Gobbi; Cadle, John E.; Murphy, Robert W.; de Moura-Leite, Julio Cesar; Bonatto, Sandro L. (2009). "Molecular phylogeny of advanced snakes (Serpentes, Caenophidia) with an emphasis on South American Xenodontines: a revised classification and descriptions of new taxa". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 49 (11): 115–153. (Mussurana, new genus). (in English, with abstracts in English and Portuguese).

Wikidata ☰ Q13431408 entry