Chironius multiventris

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| image = Chironius multiventris headshot.jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Ortega, A. |author2=Hoogmoed, M. |author3=Cisneros-Heredia, D.F. |author4=Catenazzi, A. |author5=Nogueira, C. |author6=Schargel, W. |author7=Rivas, G. |year=2019 |title=Chironius multiventris |volume=2019 |page=e.T44580143A44580148 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T44580143A44580148.en |access-date=2 May 2023}}

| genus = Chironius

| species = multiventris

| authority = Schmidt & Walker, 1943

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Chironius multiventris, commonly known as the long-tailed machete savane, is species of colubrid snake.

Geographic range

It is found in Peru, northern Venezuela, Colombia in the Guainía and Trinidad and Tobago.

Description

The body is elongate, and strongly laterally compressed. The tail is long, as the common name implies. The dorsum is olive to light brown. There is a narrow whitish, black-edged, vertebral stripe. The upper labials and the ventrum are yellowish.

The ventrals are 178–183, and the subcaudals are 172–202. (Both these counts are higher than in C. carinatus.) The dorsal scales are arranged in 12 rows anteriorly and at midbody, in 10 rows posteriorly. (C. carinatus has 8 rows posteriorly.)

Adults may attain a total length of {{convert|136|cm|ftin|abbr=on}}, with a tail {{convert|56|cm|in|abbr=on}} long.Schmidt, K.P. and W.F. Walker. 1943. Peruvian snakes from the University of Arequipa. Zoological Series of Field Museum of Zoology 24(26):279-296.

Diet

Chironius multiventris feeds on frogs.

Notes

References

{{cite book | author=Boos, Hans E.A. | title=The snakes of Trinidad and Tobago | publisher=Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX. | year=2001 |isbn=1-58544-116-3}}

multiventris

Category:Reptiles of Venezuela

Category:Reptiles of Trinidad and Tobago

Category:Taxa named by Karl Patterson Schmidt

Category:Reptiles described in 1943

Category:Snakes of South America