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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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Foto
Photography ID: 506593
  Adult
Costa del rio Salado
Santa Fe
Argentina
09/02/2022
Victor Merlino
Foto
Photography ID: 503842
  Adult
Moussy
Santa Fe
Argentina
08/10/2022
Nilo Casco
Foto
Photography ID: 440482
 Avellaneda
Santa Fe
Argentina
04/10/2021
Nilo Casco
Foto
Photography ID: 219576
  Adult
Soledad
Santa Fe
Argentina
09/19/2017
Victor Merlino



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Record IDDateExact timeCountryProvince / departmentPlaceFilmedPhotographedRecorded vocalObservedHeardWounded or deadNumber of individualsUser or BibliographyDetail
166506429/10/2022ArgentinaSanta FeReserva El Estero, Alejandra3Nilo Casco
166564224/10/2022ArgentinaSanta FePuerto Reconquista1Nilo Casco
163603002/09/2022ArgentinaSanta FeCosta del rio SaladoVictor Merlino
162400810/08/2022ArgentinaSanta FePuente La Sirena (r.98), MoussyNilo Casco
150825727/11/2021ArgentinaSanta FePuente La Sirena (r.98), MoussyNilo Casco
149345212/11/2021ArgentinaSanta FeSegunda Cañada Norte, MoussyNilo Casco
143916826/07/2021ArgentinaSanta FeCercanías de la calle 2, AvellanedaNilo Casco
139315010/04/2021ArgentinaSanta FeCampito Scout, AvellanedaNilo Casco
96038227/05/2019ArgentinaSanta FeCamping Los Tatanes, AvellanedaNilo Casco
75103228/04/2018ArgentinaSanta FeCampito Scout, AvellanedaNilo Casco
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Bibliography related


Artículo 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.



Citation recommended:

EcoRegistros. 2026. Toad-Eating Snake (Xenodon merremii) - Species sheet. Acceded from https://www.ecoregistros.org on 12/04/2026.