| on the identity of chironius flavolineatus (serpentes: colubridae). | the snake genus chironius fitzinger, 1826 is endemic to the neotropical region, occurring from honduras to uruguay and northeastern argentina. some species of the genus have taxonomic and/or nomenclatural problems, such as c. flavolineatus which lacks agreement in the literature about its authorship and type locality. some researchers have been suggesting jan (1863) as the author of the species since he first described c. flavolineatus based on two specimens. however, other researchers report th ... | 2014 | 24870316 |
| a new species of chironius fitzinger, 1826 from the state of bahia, northeastern brazil (serpentes: colubridae). | we describe a new species of chironius fitzinger, 1826 from the highlands of chapada diamantina, state of bahia, brazil. the new species is distinguished from all currently recognized congeners by a unique combination of states of characters on coloration, scale counts, scale ornamentation, and hemipenis. the new species closely resembles chironius flavolineatus (jan, 1863) in color pattern, but differs from the later taxon by the presence of two to four posterior temporal scales; cloacal shield ... | 2014 | 25543653 |
| taxonomic revision of chironius flavolineatus (jan, 1863) with description of a new species (serpentes: colubridae). | we conducted a taxonomic review of chironius flavolineatus on the basis of continuous and discrete morphological characters. we recognize a new species which is distinguished from all currently recognized congeners by the following unique combination of characters: first third of body black or dark gray; vertebral stripe yellowish or creamish white distinct from dorsals of nape and extending throughout almost whole body length; head dorsum tan to brown, distinct from background color of first th ... | 2015 | 26623847 |
| new records of helminths in reptiles from five states of brazil. | forty five specimens representing nine species of reptile (salvator merianae, enyalius bilineatus, amphisbaena alba, xenopholis undulatus, chironius fuscus, helicops angulatus, chironius flavolineatus, erythrolamprus viridis and crotalus durissus) collected in five brazilian states were examined for helminths. twelve helminth species were found as follow: nine nematoda (physaloptera tupinambae, strongyluris oscari, paracapillaria sp., dracunculus brasiliensis, physaloptera liophis, serpentirhabi ... | 2018 | 29489929 |