Mussurana bicolor
Mussurana bicolor is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to southern South America.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Genus: | Mussurana |
| Species: | M. bicolor |
| Binomial name | |
| Mussurana bicolor (Peracca, 1904) | |
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Description
M. bicolor may attain a maximum total length (including tail) of 99 cm (39 in). Adults are gray or brown dorsally, and ivory ventrally. Juveniles are brick red dorsally, with a black vertebral stripe.[2]
References
- Nogueira C, Scott NJ Jr (2010). "Mussurana bicolor ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
- Species Mussurana bicolor at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.
Further reading
- Freiberg M (1982). Snakes of South America. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. ISBN 0-87666-912-7. (Clelia bicolor, p. 92).
- Peracca MG (1904). "Nouvelles espèces d'Ophidiens d'Asie et d'Amerique, faisante parte de la collection du Museum d'histoire naturelle de Genève ". Revue Suisse de Zoologie 12: 663–668. (Oxyrhopus bicolor, new species, pp. 667-668). (in French).
- Peters JA, Orejas-Miranda B (1970). Catalogue of the Neotropical Squamata. Part I. Snakes. (With the collaboration of Roberto Donoso-Barros). United States National Museum Bulletin 297. Washington, District of Columbia: Smithsonian Institution Press. viii + 347 pp. (Clelia bicolor, new combination, p. 63). (in English and Spanish).
- 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 (São Paulo) 49 (11): 115–153. (Mussurana bicolor, new combination). (in English, with abstracts in English and Portuguese).
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