Mussurana (genus)

Mussurana is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae. The genus is endemic to South America.^[1]

Species and geographic ranges[]

The genus Mussurana contains the following species which are recognized as being valid.^[1]

Mussurana bicolor (Peracca, 1904) – Argentina, southern Brazil, Paraguay, and Peru
(, & , 1997) – southeastern Brazil
(Franco, Marques & Puorto, 1997) – northern Argentina, southeastern Brazil, and Paraguay

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Mussurana.

The specific name, quimi, is in honor of Brazilian herpetologist of the Instituto Butantan.^[2]

^ ^a ^b Genus Mussurana at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Clelia quimi, p. 214).

Zaher, Hussam; Grazziotin, Felipe Gobbi; Cadle, John E.; Murphy, Robert W.; de Moura-Leite, Julio Cesar; Bonatto, Sandro L. (2009). "Molecular phylogeny of advanced snakes (Serpentes, Caenophidia) with an emphasis on South American Xenodontines: a revised classification and descriptions of new taxa". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) 49 (11): 115–153. (Mussurana, new genus). (in English, with abstracts in English and Portuguese).

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