Phimophis guianensis, also known commonly as Troschel's pampas snake, is a species of snake in the subfamily Dipsadinae of the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to South America.

Geographic range

Phimophis guianensis has been reported from Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Suriname, and Venezuela.

Phimophis guianensis

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of P. guianensis are shrubland and savanna, at altitudes from sea level to .

Phimophis guianensis

Description

Phimophis guianensis may attain a total length of , which includes a tail long.

Phimophis guianensis

Reproduction

Phimophis guianensis is oviparous.

References

Further reading

Cope ED (1860). "Catalogue of Colubridæ in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. I. Calamarinæ". Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 12: 74–79. (Phimophis, new genus, p. 79). Freiberg M (1982). Snakes of South America. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. . (Genus Phimophis, p. 107). Griffin LE (1916). "A Catalog of the Ophidia from South America at Present (June, 1916) Contained in the Carnegie Museum with Descriptions of some New Species". Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum 7 (3): 163–228 + Plate XXVIII. (Rhinostoma guianense, p. 214).

Phimophis

Reptiles of Brazil

Reptiles of Colombia

Reptiles of French Guiana

Reptiles of Guyana

Reptiles of Panama

Reptiles of Suriname

Reptiles of Venezuela

Reptiles described in 1848