PRESENCIA DE Oxyrhopus petolarius (SERPENTES: COLUBRIDAE) EN EL CHACO HÚMEDO EN PARAGUAY

Diego Bueno Villafañe; Nicolás Cantero

doi:10.22201/fc.25942158e.2022.4.535

PRESENCE OF Oxyrhopus petolarius (SERPENTES: COLUBRIDAE) IN THE HUMID CHACO IN PARAGUAY

Authors

Diego Bueno Villafañe Instituto de Investigación Biológica del Paraguay
Nicolás Cantero Fauna y Vida, Cruz Roja Paraguaya 1340, San Lorenzo, Paraguay.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22201/fc.25942158e.2022.4.535

Keywords:

biodiversity, distribution, zoogeographic novelty, reptiles

Abstract

Oxyrhopus petolarius (Serpentes: Colubridae) is distributed from southern Mexico to the Department of Itapúa in Paraguay and the province of Misiones in Argentina. In Paraguay it has few records, all of them in the Atlantic Forest except for one, in the Paraguayan Pantanal. We report a juvenile of O. petolarius in the District of Capitán Carmelo Peralta, Alto Paraguay Department – Paraguay, 174 km south of the closest record in the Paraguayan Pantanal and is the first in a transition region with the Humid Chaco ecoregion.

Author Biography

Diego Bueno Villafañe, Instituto de Investigación Biológica del Paraguay

I'm a Biologist with a master’s degree in Conservation Biology, both from the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (FACEN). I am categorized as a level I researcher by the National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT), through the Researcher Incentive Program (PRONII). I am an associate researcher at the Biological Research Institute of Paraguay (IIBP), where I study ecology and evolution of amphibians and reptiles.

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Published

2022-12-28

How to Cite

Bueno Villafañe, D., & Cantero, N. (2022). PRESENCE OF Oxyrhopus petolarius (SERPENTES: COLUBRIDAE) IN THE HUMID CHACO IN PARAGUAY. Revista Latinoamericana De Herpetología, 5(4), 112–114. https://doi.org/10.22201/fc.25942158e.2022.4.535