Check List 15(5): 927-932, doi: 10.15560/15.5.927
New records and range expansion of Chironius carinatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Serpentes, Colubridae) from the state of Paraíba, northeast Brazil
expand article infoPaula Araújo‡, Rafaela Candido de França§|, Fernanda Soares do Nascimento‡, Daniel Orsi Laranjeiras, Frederico Gustavo Rodrigues França‡
‡ Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Rio Tinto, Brazil§ Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Ilhéus, Brazil| Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany¶ Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil

Corresponding author: Rafaela Candido de França ( rafaela.franca.ufpb@gmail.com )

Academic editor: Raul Fernandes Dantas Sales
© Paula Araújo, Rafaela Candido de França, Fernanda Soares do Nascimento, Daniel Orsi Laranjeiras, Frederico Gustavo Rodrigues França.
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation: Araújo P, França RC, Nascimento FS, Laranjeiras DO, Rodrigues França FG (2019) New records and range expansion of Chironius carinatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Serpentes, Colubridae) from the state of Paraíba, northeast Brazil. Check List 15(5): 927-932. https://doi.org/10.15560/15.5.927
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Abstract

The current work provides a new state record of the snake Chironius carinatus (Linnaeus, 1758) based on two specimens collected in the Atlantic Forest of Paraíba state, northeastern Brazil. This species occurs in the Amazon and Atlantic Forests. The new records fills in a gap in the species’ distribution on the Brazilian coast. In Paraíba, C. carinatus occurs in sympatry with two other Chironius Fitzinger, 1826 species, C. flavolineatus Jan, 1863 and C. exoletus (Linnaeus, 1758).

Keywords
Atlantic Forest, colubrid, snake, South America