New records and range expansion of Chironius carinatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Serpentes, Colubridae) from the state of Paraíba, northeast Brazil

By

Araújo, Paula
França, Rafaela Cândido de
Nascimento, Fernanda Soares Do
Laranjeiras, Daniel Orsi
França, Frederico Gustavo Rodrigues

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2019-10-18

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

15

Series / Issue

Issue: 5

Pages

927--932

Subjects

Atlantic forest , Colubrid , snake , South America

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/15.5.927

 

Abstract

The current work provides a new state record of the snake Chironius carinatus (Linnaeus, 1758) based on two specimens collected in the Atlantic Forest of Paraíba state, northeastern Brazil. This species occurs in the Amazon and Atlantic Forests. The new records fills in a gap in the species’ distribution on the Brazilian coast. In Paraíba, C. carinatus occurs in sympatry with two other Chironius Fitzinger, 1826 species, C. flavolineatus Jan, 1863 and C. exoletus (Linnaeus, 1758).