Helicops danieli Amaral, 1937

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

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scientific name

Helicops danieli Amaral, 1937
status

 

Helicops danieli Amaral, 1937

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: SMF 55074 View Materials ; recordedBy: A. Werner leg.; individualCount: 1; sex: female; Taxon : scientificName: Helicops danieli Amaral , 1937; Location : country: Columbia; stateProvince: Barranquilla ; Event : year: 1958; Record Level: institutionID: SMF Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: SMF 55115 View Materials ; recordedBy: A. Werner leg.; individualCount: 1; sex: female; Taxon : scientificName: Helicops danieli Amaral , 1937; Location : country: Columbia; stateProvince: Barranquilla ; Event : year: 1958; Record Level: institutionID: SMF Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: SMF 55695 View Materials ; recordedBy: A. Werner leg.; individualCount: 1; sex: female; Taxon : scientificName: Helicops danieli Amaral , 1937; Location : country: Columbia; stateProvince: Barranquilla ; Event : year: 1958; Record Level: institutionID: SMF Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: ZMB 9490 ; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Taxon : scientificName: Helicops danieli Amaral , 1937; Location : country: Brazil; Record Level: institutionID: ZMB Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: ZSM 596/2003 ; recordedBy: W. Hellmich leg.; individualCount: 1; sex: female; Taxon : scientificName: Helicops danieli Amaral , 1937; Location : country: Columbia; stateProvince: Bolivar ; locality: Jesus del Rio ; Event: year: 1937; Record Level: institutionID: ZSM

Diagnosis

Helicops danieli is readily distinguished from its congeners by its unique colour pattern, namely a spotted dorsum in combination with a ventral pattern consisting of two rows of semi-lunar marks on a light background (for information on references see, Suppl. material 3).

Distribution

Helicops danieli is only occurring in Colombia, where it seems to be found mainly west of the Andes. There is a report from the lowland in the east near the Brazilian border ( Yuki and Castano 1998, Fig. 1 e). Specimen ZMB 9490 has the country-level locality Brazil without further precision.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Dipsadidae

Genus

Helicops