Included, excluded and re-included: Chironius brazili (Serpentes, Colubridae) in Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil

• Published in: Neotropical biology and conservation Vol. 11; no. 3; p. 198
• Main Authors: Arthur Diesel Abegg, Leandro Malta Borges, da Rosa, Conrado Mario, Omar Machado Entiauspe-Neto, Nathan Motta Arocha, Santos-Jr, Alfredo P
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sophia Pensoft Publishers 01.09.2016
• Subjects: Animal populations; Biogeography; Habitats; Snakes; Rio Grande do Sul Brazil

Although Chironius brazili Hamdan and Fernandes, 2015, was recently described, its occurrence in Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil, has been discussed for at least three decades. In this work, we evaluate the occurrence of C. brazili in Rio Grande do Sul, presenting three new records, a distributio...