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Helicops boitata

Helicops boitata

Moraes-da-Silva, Amaro, Sales-Nunes, Strüssmann, Teixeira, Andrade, Sudré, Recoder, Rodrigues & Curcio, 2019

GBIF:194381487

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Helicops boitata differs from all its congeners by the combination of an entire nasal scale and 25 dorsal scale rows at mid-body, reducing to 21 anterior to cloaca (versus 17/15 in H. nentur; 28–28/18–20 in H. yacu) (for information on references, see Suppl. material 3).

Schöneberg Y, Köhler G (2022) Distribution and identification of the species in the genus Helicops Wagler, 1830 (Serpentes, Colubridae, Xenodontinae). Biodiversity Data Journal 10: e69234. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e69234http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Helicops boitata is only known from the Pantanal at Transpantaneira Road in the Municipality of Pocone, Mato Grosso, Brazil (Fig. 1c).

Schöneberg Y, Köhler G (2022) Distribution and identification of the species in the genus Helicops Wagler, 1830 (Serpentes, Colubridae, Xenodontinae). Biodiversity Data Journal 10: e69234. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e69234http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Distribution and identification of the species in the genus Helicops Wagler, 1830 (Serpentes, Colubridae, Xenodontinae)

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The aquatic snakes of the genus Helicops are widely distributed throughout northern South America, but understudied concerning some aspects, including morphological traits and distribution. The most recent publication that provided an identification key to all species of Helicops is over 50 years old. This key is of limited value today since it includes taxa no longer recognised and lacks 8 of the 19 species currently recognised. There never was a publication trying to summarise distributional and morphological information of all species of Helicops. Most knowledge of these species is distributed throughout many small publications, such as short observation notes.Here, we present distribution maps (point records), an identification key and comments on identification for all species in this genus. We base our results on a comprehensive literature review of over 300 scientific publications and own examinations. Our examinations comprise 190 specimens of 10 of the 19 currently recognised species and one Helicops sp. We report range extensions for the species H. danieli, H. infrataeniatus, H. leopardinus, H. pastazae and H. polylepis.

Schöneberg Y (2022). Distribution and identification of the species in the genus Helicops Wagler, 1830 (Serpentes, Colubridae, Xenodontinae). Biodiversity Data Journal. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.3897/bdj.10.e69234 accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-17.

CC BYPublished 3/10/2022
GBIF Usage Key
194381487
Dataset Key
07dc09bc-1a14-4846-b1f2-0ebba83ed4ad
Origin
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Backbone Key
10562741
Taxon ID
69234-sp3
Last Crawled
7/3/2025
Last Interpreted
7/3/2025
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