Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk).
Latest update: December 31st, 2022.
 
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Genus
Clelia
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Northern Snake Eaters, Northern Mussuranas
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Nördlicher Schlangenfresser, Mussuranas
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Nordlige Slangeædere, Nordlige Mussuranaer
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1826 |  |
Clelia Fitzinger (type species: Coluber clelia Daudin 1803) |
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1843 | |
Deiropeda Fitzinger (type species: Coluber clelia Daudin 1803) |
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1843 | |
Hydroscopus Fitzinger (type species: Coluber plumbeus Wied 1820) |
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1853 | |
Brachyrruton Dumeril (type species: none designated; syn. Bailey in Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970) |
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1924 | |
Barbourina Amaral (type species: Barbourina equatoriana Amaral 1924) |
Contents:
6 species, of which 2 (33.3%) are endemic.
In addition to this, 1 endemic species (errabunda) is considered extinct.
Endemism: 0%  100%
Remarks:
Previously included the species now placed in
Mussurana and
Paraphimophis.
Distribution:
Mexico, Central America, South America, Lesser Antilles.
Reported from:
Argentina,
Belize,
Bolivia,
Brazil
(Acre,
Alagoas,
Amapa,
Amazonas,
Bahia,
Ceara,
Distrito Federal,
Espirito Santo,
Goias,
Maranhao,
Mato Grosso,
Mato Grosso do Sul,
Minas Gerais,
Para
[incl.
Marajo Island],
Parana,
Pernambuco,
Rio de Janeiro,
Rio Grande do Sul,
Rondonia,
Roraima,
Santa Catarina,
Sao Paulo
[incl.
Sao Sebastiao],
Tocantins),
Colombia
(incl.
Gorgona Island),
Costa Rica,
Dominica,
Ecuador,
French Guiana,
Grenada,
Guatemala,
Guyana,
Honduras,
Mexico
(Campeche,
Chiapas,
Colima,
Guerrero,
Jalisco,
Michoacan,
Oaxaca,
Quintana Roo,
Tabasco,
Veracruz,
Yucatan),
Nicaragua,
Panama,
Paraguay,
Peru,
Saint Lucia,
Surinam,
Trinidad & Tobago
(Trinidad),
Venezuela.
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Clelia clelia
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Common Snake Eater, Black Mussurana, Cribo, Windward Clelia
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Gewöhnliche Schlangenfresser
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Almindelig Slangeæder
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1803 | |
Coluber clelia Daudin |
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Brachyruton cloelia [sic] Duméril, Bibron & Duméril 1854 |
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Clelia clelia Fitzinger 1826 |
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Oxyrhopus clelia Cope 1878 |
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Pseudoboa clelia Ditmars 1931 |
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1826 | |
Clelia daudinii Fitzinger (Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970) |
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1854 | |
Brachyruton occipito-luteum Duméril, Bibron & Duméril (Scrocchi & Viñas 1990) |
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Pseudoboa occipitolutea Serié 1936 |
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Clelia occipitolutea Bailey in Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970 |
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1965 | |
Clelia clelia groomei Greer |
Remarks:
Previously included plumbea.
The clelia/equatoriana/scytalina species group is in need of revision, and there has been much confusion about the distribution of this genus in Mexico
(Wilson & Johnson 2010).
Only scytalina is currently believed to occur in the country (Stuart 1963; Bailey 1970; Smith & Pérez-Higareda 1989; Lee 1996; Wilson & Johnson 2010),
although clelia possibly enters the country at the base of the Yucatan Peninsula, having been found close to the border in Belize and Guatemala.
Records from Dominica are erroneous (Underwood 1993).
Specific epithet has sometimes been misspelled cloelia.
Extinct in:
Antigua & Barbuda
(Barbuda).
Distribution:
Argentina,
Belize,
Bolivia,
Brazil
(Acre,
Amapa,
Amazonas,
Maranhao,
Mato Grosso,
Mato Grosso do Sul,
Para
[incl.
Marajo Island],
Rondonia,
Roraima,
Tocantins),
Colombia
(incl.
Gorgona Island),
Costa Rica,
Ecuador,
French Guiana,
Grenada,
Guatemala,
Guyana,
Honduras,
Nicaragua,
Panama,
Paraguay,
Peru,
Surinam,
Trinidad & Tobago
(Trinidad),
Venezuela.
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Clelia equatoriana
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Equatorial Snake Eater
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Äkvatoriale Schlangenfresser
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Ækvator-slangeæder
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1924 | |
Barbourina equatoriana Amaral |
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Clelia equatoriana Bailey in Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970 |
Remarks:
The clelia/equatoriana/scytalina group is in need of revision (Wilson & Johnson 2010).
Records from Costa Rica are considered to represent scytalina
(Acosta Chaves, Ballesteros, Batista, García Rodríguez, Ines Hladki, Ramírez Pinilla, Renjifo, Saborío, Urbina, Vargas Álvarez & Caicedo 2016).
Distribution:
Colombia,
Ecuador,
Panama,
Peru.
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Clelia errabunda
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Saint Lucia Snake Eater
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Saint-Lucia-Schlangenfresser
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Saint Lucia-slangeæder
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1993 | |
Clelia errabunda Underwood |
Remarks:
Extinct (Daltry, Powell & Henderson 2017).
Distribution:
Saint Lucia.
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Clelia hussami
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Parana Snake Eater
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Parana-Schlangenfresser
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Parana-slangeæder
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Clelia hussami Morato, Franco & Sanches |
Distribution:
Brazil
(Parana,
Rio Grande do Sul,
Santa Catarina).
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Clelia langeri
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Bolivian Snake Eater
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Bolivianische Schlangenfresser
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Boliviansk Slangeæder
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2005 | |
Clelia langeri Reichle & Embert |
Distribution:
Bolivia.
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Clelia plumbea
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Plumbeous Snake Eater, Common Southeastern Snake Eater
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Graue Schlangenfresser
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Grå Slangeæder
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1820 | |
Coluber plumbeus Wied |
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Clelia clelia plumbea Bailey in Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970 |
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Clelia plumbea Lema 1994 |
Remarks:
Previously regarded as a subspecies of clelia (e.g., Bailey in Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970), but as a separate species in most recent publications
(e.g., Lema 1994; Giraudo 2001; Giraudo & Scrocchi 2002; Centeno, Sawaya & Marques 2008; Cicchi, Sena, Peccinini-Seale & Duarte 2007; Jansen, Álvarez & Köhler 2009).
According to Scrocchi & Viñas (1990), plumbea does not occur in Argentina.
Not mentioned for Mato Grosso do Sul by
Ferreira, Terra, Piatti, Delatorre, Strüssmann, Béda, Kawashita-Ribeiro, Landgref-Filho, Aoki, Campos, Souza, Ávila, Duleba, Martins, Rita & Albuquerque (2017).
Distribution:
Argentina,
Brazil
(Alagoas,
Amazonas,
Bahia,
Ceara,
Distrito Federal,
Espirito Santo,
Goias,
Maranhao,
Mato Grosso,
Mato Grosso do Sul,
Minas Gerais,
Para
[incl.
Marajo Island),
Parana,
Rio de Janeiro,
Rio Grande do Sul,
Rondonia,
Santa Catarina,
Sao Paulo
[incl.
Sao Sebastiao],
Tocantins),
Paraguay.
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Clelia scytalina
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Mexican Snake Eater, Highland Snake Eater
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Mexicanische Schlangenfresser
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Mexicansk Slangeæder
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Scolecophis scytalinus Cope |
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Clelia scytalina Stuart 1963 |
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1897 | |
Oxyrhopus proximus Bocourt (Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970) |
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1942 | |
Clelia clelia immaculata Smith (Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970) |
Remarks:
Previously regarded as a synonym of clelia (e.g., Smith & Taylor 1945). Revalidated by Stuart (1963).
See remarks under clelia.
Known with certainty only as far south as Guatemala.
Other records of this species south of Guatemala refer to equatoriana (Savage & Bolaños 2009).
Distribution:
Belize,
Guatemala,
Mexico
(Campeche,
Chiapas,
Colima,
Guerrero,
Jalisco,
Michoacan,
Oaxaca,
Quintana Roo,
Tabasco,
Veracruz).
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