Check List 19(1): 1-6, doi: 10.15560/19.1.1

Mussurana bicolor (Peracca, 1904) (Squamata, Colubridae): additional country records and first list of voucher specimens from Bolivia

Luis Rolando Rivas^‡, Gabriel Callapa^§, Cord B. Eversole^|, Randy L. Powell^¶, Robert L. Wallace^#

‡ Universidad Autónoma del Beni José Ballivián, Trinidad, Bolivia§ Bolivian Amphibian Initiative, Cochabamba, Bolivia| Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, United States of America¶ Texas A&M University, Kingsville, United States of America# Wildlife Conservation Society, La Paz, Bolivia

Corresponding author: Luis Rolando Rivas ( luisrivas301280@gmail.com )

Academic editor: Manuella Folly

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: Rivas LR, Callapa G, Eversole CB, Powell RL, Wallace RL (2023) Mussurana bicolor (Peracca, 1904) (Squamata, Colubridae): additional country records and first list of voucher specimens from Bolivia. Check List 19(1): 1-6. https://doi.org/10.15560/19.1.1

Abstract

We present country records and a list of voucher specimens for Mussurana bicolor (Peracca, 1904) (Serpentes, Colubridae) from Bolivia. There is scarce information on museum specimens and locality data from Bolivia for this species in the scientific literature. Additionally, we discuss two newly collected specimens from the Llanos de Moxos, a floodplain in the Beni Department. This account contributes to the knowledge of the northwestern distributional status of M. bicolor and summarizes available data for Bolivia.

Keywords

Mussurana, Neotropics, Pando, primary rainforest, reptile, squamata, snake