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Epicrates alvarezi Cope 1862

Authors/Creators

  • 1. FAUNA Paraguay, Encarnación, Paraguay. & Fundación Para La Tierra, Centro IDEAL, Pilar, Paraguay
  • 2. Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Departamento de Recursos Faunísticos y Medio Natural, filial Caazapá, Paraguay.
  • 3. Fundación Para La Tierra, Centro IDEAL, Pilar, Paraguay.
  • 4. Programa de Reservas y Biodiversidad del Sector Medio Ambiente de la Entidad Binacional Yacyretá, Ayolas, Paraguay. & Club de Observadores de la Naturaleza, Paraguay.
  • 5. Departamento de Arqueología y Paleontología, Secretaría Nacional de Cultura, Asunción, Paraguay and Museo Nacional de Historia Natural del Paraguay. San Lorenzo, Paraguay.
  • 6. Instituto de Investigación Biológica del Paraguay. Del Escudo 1607, Asunción, Paraguay. & Asociación Guyra Paraguay, Avenida Coronel Carlos Bóveda, Parque Asunción Verde, Viñas Cué, Asunción, Paraguay.
  • 7. Agri-Herp Consult, Am Wittenborn 8, 34346 Hann. Münden, Germany.
  • 8. FAUNA Paraguay, Encarnación, Paraguay.
  • 9. Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Asunción, Paraguay.

Description

Chaco Rainbow Boa,

Epicrates alvarezi Cope, 1862

An individual of this species was photographed (Fig. 23) on 2 February 2024 on the road close to Estancia Las Gringas, c 12.5 km northeast of the Prefectura Naval de Pozo Hondo (22°12’54.0”S 62°25’32.3”W) by PS and MF, (and was also observed by PC). This extends the range of the species in the Paraguayan Chaco and into the northern Pilcomayo region, 136.6 km southwest of the nearest known locality, Parque Nacional Teniente Agripino Enciso. A juvenile individual was photographed (Fig. 24) on 19 February 2024 at Puerto Carmelo Peralta (21°40’15.3”S 57°59’0.3”W) by HN, extending the range of the species 172.3 km northeast into the Humid Chaco ecoregion from the closest previous record at Reserva Privada Campo María, Presidente Hayes department (22°34’S, 59°21’W) (Cacciali et al., 2016b). The species is considered to be “Vulnerable” in Paraguay (Martínez et al., 2020c).

Notes

Published as part of Smith, Paul, Maciel, José, Redin Hurtado, Mikel, Galeano, Sergio, Stepan, Nicole, Brouard, Jean-Paul, Ríos, Sergio D., Ferreira Riveros, Marcela, Smith, Rebecca L., Owen, Matthew, Nicolay, Harald, Derna, Roberto, Vera Burró, Alvaro, Lahaye, Tito & Cacciali, Pier, 2024, Twenty-eight new and significant departmental reptile records for Paraguay, pp. 347-385 in Acta Zoológica Lilloana 68 (2) on page 372, DOI: 10.30550/j.azl/1954, http://zenodo.org/record/14656922

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AA003FFF87FFD12E382DE0FD9867FB

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.14656973 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.14656975 (DOI)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.30550/j.azl/1954 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/14656922 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF937847FF90FFC92C312B0FFFF26272 (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03AA003FFF87FFD12E382DE0FD9867FB (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/255806801 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/308509/taxon/03AA003FFF87FFD12E382DE0FD9867FB.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Cope
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Squamata
Family
Boidae
Genus
Epicrates
Species
alvarezi
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Epicrates alvarezi Cope, 1862 sec. Smith, Maciel, Hurtado, Galeano, Stepan, Brouard, Ríos, Riveros, Smith, Owen, Nicolay, Derna, Burró, Lahaye & Cacciali, 2024

References

  • Cacciali, P., Scott, N. J., Aquino, A. L., Fitzgerald, L. A., Smith, P. (2016 b). The reptiles of Paraguay: literature, distribution and an annotated taxonomic checklist. Special Publication of the Museum of Southwestern Biology, 11, 1 - 373. https: // digitalrepository. unm. edu / msb _ special _ publications / 1 /
  • Martinez, N., Cacciali, P., Bauer, F., Cabral, H., Tedesco, M., Vinke, S., Vinke, T., Vazquez, D., Ramos, E., Motte, M. (2020 c). Estado de conservacion y lista roja de los reptiles del Paraguay. Boletin del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural del Paraguay, 24, 1 - 128. https: // www. mades. gov. py / wp-content / uploads / 2020 / 12 / 24 _ Supl _ 1 _ 2019 _ BolMusNacHistNatParag _ L. pdf