Chironius monticola

Taxonavigation
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Colubrinae
Genus: Chironius
Species: Chironius monticola
Name
[edit]Chironius monticola Roze, 1952: 100
- Holotype: MBUCV 2019, ♀, collected by J. Racenis on 15 July 1951.
- Type locality: “la carretera Caracas-El Junguito, cerca de El Junquito, Distrito Federal, Venezuela, en una altura de 1.850 metros sobre el nivel del mar”.
Native distribution areas
[edit]- Bolivia
- Peru
- Ecuador
- Colombia
- Venezuela
- ?Suriname
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Roze, J.A. 1952. Colección de reptiles del profesor Scorza, de Venezuela. Acta Biológica Venezuelica 1(5): 93–114. Reference page.
Additional references
[edit]- Kornacker, P.M. 1999. Checklist and key to the snakes of Venezuela: Lista sistemática y clave para las serpientes de Venezuela. PaKo-Verlag: Rheinbach, Germany. 270 pp. ISBN 978-3980624008.Reference page.
- Hollis, J.L. 2006. Phylogenetics of the genus Chironius Fitzinger, 1826 (Serpentes, Colubridae) based on morphology. Herpetologica 62(4): 435–453. JSTOR
Reference page.
Links
[edit]- Daza, J., Aguayo, R., Aparicio, J., Gonzales, L., Embert, D., Cisneros-Heredia, D.F., Valencia, J., Venegas, P. & Rivas, G. 2016. IUCN: Chironius monticola (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T44580132A44580137. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T44580132A44580137.en. Accessed on 25 November 2025.
Vernacular names
[edit]- English: Mountain Sipo