Toad-Eating Snake (Xenodon merremii)

Toad-Eating Snake

Xenodon merremii

Wagler, 1824
Falsa Yarará

Family: Colubridae
Order: Squamata
Class: Reptilia
Phylum / Division: Chordata
Kingdom: Animalia

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Other common names: Sapera, Culebra Sapera.

Synonyms: Waglerophis merremii, Waglerophis merremi.

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Group	Species	Date	User
Amphibians	Sapo Común (Rhinella arenarum)	22/11/2016	Samuel Ernesto Olivieri Bornand

Last published photographs

Photography ID: 671909
Adult
Pp Ibera - Portal San Antonio
Corrientes
Argentina
01/20/2026
Esteban Geronimo Javier Luque

Photography ID: 651598
Adult
Parque Nacional Iberá
Corrientes
Argentina
09/10/2025
Diego Oscar

Photography ID: 631941
♂ ♀ Adult
Reserva Natural Privada Ecoportal de Piedra
Jujuy
Argentina
04/17/2025
Diego Oscar

Photography ID: 609052
Panaholma
Córdoba
Argentina
11/14/2024
Patricia Beatriz Benitez

Photography ID: 576378
Juvenile
Juana Koslay
San Luis
Argentina
03/02/2024
Juan Andrés Quiroga Ortiz

Photography ID: 547778
Adult
Loma Monte Lindo, Pirané
Formosa
Argentina
09/12/2023
Pablo Ezequiel Ghisla

Photography ID: 534228
San Clemente
Córdoba
Argentina
04/07/2023
Gonzalo Camiletti

Photography ID: 524476
♀ Adult
Palo Santo
Formosa
Argentina
11/17/2022
Cristian Neumann

Photography ID: 518686
Adult
Parque Provincial Chancaní
Córdoba
Argentina
11/08/2022
Silvio Lamothe

Photography ID: 518440
Juvenile
Embalse El Carrizal
Mendoza
Argentina
12/22/2022
Matias Pescara

Photography ID: 506593
Adult
Costa del rio Salado
Santa Fe
Argentina
09/02/2022
Victor Merlino

Photography ID: 503842
Adult
Moussy
Santa Fe
Argentina
08/10/2022
Nilo Casco

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Last Vocalizations published

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Last Filmings published

Video ID: 4784
Adult
Río Ceballos
Córdoba
Argentina
06/12/2021
Francisco Laferriere

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2429187

20/01/2026

Argentina

Corrientes

Complejo Aventura Ibera, Pp Ibera - Portal San Antonio

Esteban Geronimo Javier Luque

2365528

19/09/2025

Argentina

Corrientes

Lobo Cuá, Parque Nacional Iberá

Aluminé Sangorrín

2362141

11/09/2025

Argentina

Corrientes

Ruta 40 al Norte de Carlos Pellegrini

Diego Oscar

2355773

10/09/2025

Argentina

Corrientes

Ruta 40 entre Rincòn del Socorro y Carlos Pellegrini, Parque Nacional Iberá

Diego Oscar

2287387

04/05/2025

Argentina

Tucumán

Dique El Cadillal - Celestino Gelsi, Tafi Viejo

Viviana Fuentes

2278587

17/04/2025

Argentina

Jujuy

Reserva Natural Privada Ecoportal de Piedra

Diego Oscar

2278696

01/04/2025

Argentina

Jujuy

Parque Nacional Calilegua

Diego Carus

2273806

01/04/2025

Argentina

Jujuy

Parque Nacional Calilegua

Maria Belén Dri

2190199

14/11/2024

Argentina

Córdoba

Panaholma

Patricia Beatriz Benitez

2177189

14/10/2024

Argentina

Tucumán

Santa Lucia, Reserva Provincial Los Sosa

Viviana Fuentes

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Bibliography related

Zaher, Hussam; Felipe Gobbi Grazziotin; John E. Cadle; Robert W. Murphy; Julio Cesar de Moura-Leite; Sandro L. Bonatto. 2009. Molecular phylogeny of advanced snakes (Serpentes, Caenophidia) with an emphasis on South American Xenodontines: a revised classification and descriptions of new taxa. Pap. Avulsos Zool. 49(11): 115-153.