Mussurana bicolor

Mussurana bicolor is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to southern South America.

Mussurana bicolor
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)
Synonyms[2]
  • Oxyrhopus bicolor
    Peracca, 1904
  • Clelia bicolor
    — J. Peters & Orejas-Miranda, 1970
  • Mussurana bicolor
    — Zaher et al., 2009

Geographic range

M. bicolor is found in Argentina, southern Brazil, Paraguay, and Peru.[2]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of M. bicolor are grassland, savanna, and forest.[1]

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]

Reproduction

M. bicolor is oviparous.[2]

References
  1. Nogueira CC, Scott N, Gonzales L (2019). "Mussurana bicolor ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T176775A61318421. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T176775A61318421.en. Downloaded on 14 December 2020
  2. 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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