Helicops nentur Costa, Santana, Leal, Koroiva, Garcia, 2016

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 nentur Costa, Santana, Leal, Koroiva, Garcia, 2016

Diagnosis

Helicops nentur differs from all its congeners by the combination of an entire nasal scale and 17 dorsal scale rows at mid-body (versus 25 in H. boitata ; 25-28 in H. yacu ); (for information on references, see Suppl. material 3).

Distribution

Helicops nentur is known only from the eastern part of the Brazilian Province Minas Gerais (Fig. 2 e).