Phimophis guianensis

Phimophis guianensis
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Phimophis
Species:	P. guianensis
Binomial name
	Phimophis guianensis; (Troschel, 1848)
Synonyms
	Heterodon guianensis ; Troschel, 1848; Rhinostoma guntheri ; Cope, 1860; Rhinostoma guianense ; — Boulenger, 1896; Rhinostoma guianensis ; — Bocourt, 1897; Phimophis guianensis ; — Dunn, 1944;

Phimophis guianensis, also known commonly as Troschel's pampas snake, is a species of snake in the subfamily Dipsadinae of the family Colubridae.^[5] The species is endemic to South America.^[1]

Geographic range[edit]

Phimophis guianensis has been reported from Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Suriname, and Venezuela.^[1]

The preferred natural habitats of P. guianensis are shrubland and savanna, at altitudes from sea level to 250 m (820 ft).^[1]

Phimophis guianensis may attain a total length of 103 cm (41 in), which includes a tail 16 cm (6.3 in) long.^[4]

Phimophis guianensis is oviparous.^[3]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Ibáñez, R.; Jaramillo, C.; Gutiérrez-Cárdenas, P.; Rivas, G.; Caicedo, J.; Arredondo, J.C.; Nogueira, C.; Hoogmoed, M. (2019). "Phimophis guianensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T203559A2768446. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T203559A2768446.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
^ Troschel, Franz Hermann (1848). "Amphibien ". In Schomburgk, Moritz Richard (ed.). Reisen in Britisch-Guiana in den Jahren 1840-44. Vol. 3. (Heterodon guianensis, new species, p. 653).
^ ^a ^b Species Phimophis guianensis at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
^ ^a ^b Boulenger GA (1896). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III. Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphæ and Proteroglyphæ) ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I–XXV. (Rhinostoma guianense, pp. 114–115).
^ "Oldstyle id: bf06e4bbabfd6aaf92a92ace4a4fea73". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands.

Cope ED (1860). "Catalogue of Colubridæ in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. I. Calamarinæ". Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 12: 74–79. (Phimophis, new genus, p. 79).
Freiberg M (1982). Snakes of South America. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. ISBN 0-87666-912-7. (Genus Phimophis, p. 107).
Griffin LE (1916). "A Catalog of the Ophidia from South America at Present (June, 1916) Contained in the Carnegie Museum with Descriptions of some New Species". Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum 7 (3): 163–228 + Plate XXVIII. (Rhinostoma guianense, p. 214).

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