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Taxonomy of the genus Echinanthera Biodiversity of the family Colubridae

Bibliography of the genus
Echinanthera (East Brazilian Leaf-litter Snakes)

(Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae)

Note: In order to limit redundancy, relevant literature indexed in the related bibliographies in the left column may not have been included in this page. For a comprehensive search of literature, these bibliographies should therefore also be consulted.


Echinanthera in general

Di-Bernardo, M. 1992. Revalidation of the genus Echinanthera Cope, 1894, and its conceptual amplification (Serpentes, Colubridae). Comunicacoes do Museu de Ciencias da PUCRGS Serie Zoologia 5(13): 225-256.

Schargel, W.E.; Rivas-Fuenmayor, G.A.; Myers, C.W. 2005. An enigmatic new snake from cloud forest of the Peninsula de Paria, Venezuela (Colubridae: genus Taeniophallus?). American Museum Novitates 3484: 1-22.

Zaher, H. 1999. Hemipenial morphology of the South American xenodontine snakes, with a proposal for a monophyletic Xenodontinae and a reappraisal of colubroid hemipenes. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 240: 1-168.

Echinanthera cephalomaculata

Di-Bernardo, M. 1994. Uma nova especie de Echinanthera Cope, 1894 (Serpentes, Colubridae) do nordeste do Brasil. Biociencias 2(2): 75-81.

Echinanthera cephalostriata

Argôlo, A.J.S.; Jesus, J.A. de 2008. Geographic distribution: Echinanthera cephalostriata (NCN). Herpetological Review 39(1): 111.

Di-Bernardo, M. 1996. A new species of the Neotropical snake genus Echinanthera Cope, 1894 from southeastern Brazil (Serpentes, Colubridae). The Snake 27(2): 120-126.

Moura-Leite, J.C. de; Silveira Bernils, R.; Abrahão-Morato, S.A.; Langone, J.A. 2003. Natural history notes: Echinanthera cephalostriata (NCN). Diet. Herpetological Review 34(2): 149.

Perrella, D.F.; Francisco, M.R. 2016. Natural history notes: Echinanthera cephalostriata (Head-striped Leaf-litter Snake). Diet. Herpetological Review 47(1): 146-147.

Echinanthera cyanopleura

Giraudo, A.R.; Couturier, G.A.; Bernardo, M.D. 1996. Echinanthera cyanopleura (Cope, 1885), a new record for the ophidiofauna of Argentina (Serpentes: Colubridae). Cuadernos de Herpetologia 10(1-2): 72.

Lema, T. de 1994. Descricao de um exemplar com bifurcao axial de Echinantera cyanopleura (Cope 1885) (Serpentes, Colubridae, Xenodontinae). Acta Biologica Leopoldensia 16(2): 113-117.

Vanzolini, P.E. 1953. On the type locality of some Brazilian reptiles and amphibians collected by H.H. Smith and described by E.D. Cope. Copeia 1953: 124-125.

Zanella, N.; Cechin, S.Z. 2009. Influencia dos fatores abioticos e da disponibilidade de presas sobre comunidade de Serpentes do Planalto Medio do Rio Grande do Sul. Iheringia Serie Zoologia 99(1): 111-114.

Zanella, N.; Cechin, S.Z. 2010. Reproductive biology of Echinanthera cyanopleura (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) in southern Brazil. Zoologia 27(1): 30-34.

Echinanthera melanostigma

Espinoza, N.C. de 1977. New records of colubrid snakes from Peru, with notes on their ecology and distribution. Herpetological Review 8(3): 3.

Lima Silveira, A.; Silverio Pires, M.R.; Agostini-Cotta, G. 2004. Geographic distribution: Echinanthera melanostigma. Herpetological Review 35(4): 410.

Echinanthera undulata

Amaral, A. do 1929. Valor systematico de varias formas de ophidios neotropicos. Memorias do Instituto Butantan (Sao Paulo) 4: 3-68.

Gomes, C.A.; Marques, O.A.V. 2012. Food habits, reproductive biology, and seasonal activity of the dipsadid snake, Echinanthera undulata (Wied, 1824), from the Atlantic forest in southeastern Brazil. South American Journal of Herpetology 7(3): 233-240.

Salles, R.O.; Silva-Soares, T. 2011. Predation on Leptodactylus spixi (Anura: Leptodactylidae) by Echinanthera undulata (Squamata: Dipsadidae). Herpetology Notes 4: 125-126.

Valencia, J.H. 2007. Presence of Echinantera undulata (Wied-Neuwied, 1824) in Ecuador. Herpetozoa 20(1-2): 79-81.

Werner, F. 1910. Über neue oder seltene Reptilien des Naturhistorischen Museums in Hamburg. Hamburg Jahrb. wiss. Anst. 26 [1908-1909]: 205-247.