Helicops tapajonicus da Frota, 2005

Schoeneberg, Yannis & Koehler, Gunther, 2022, Distribution and identification of the species in the genus Helicops Wagler, 1830 (Serpentes, Colubridae, Xenodontinae), Biodiversity Data Journal 10, pp. 69234-69234 : 69234

Helicops tapajonicus da Frota, 2005

Diagnosis

This species can be distinguished from all its congeners by its unique colour pattern, namely the combination of a uniform moss-green dorsum, laterally with a greenish-yellow stripe and a black and greenish-yellow banded venter (for information on references, see Suppl. material 3).

Distribution

Helicops tapajonicus is only known from two localities at the River Tapajos close to its confluence with the Amazon in the Brazilian State Para (Fig. 3 e).