Cases of human envenoming caused by Philodryas olfersii and Philodryas patagoniensis (serpentes: Colubridae) by Maria Elisabeth de Araújo, Ana Cristina M.C.A. dos Santos

“…The present paper reports two cases of human envenoming by colubrid snakes of Philodryas, considered as not poisonous, showing evidence of the clinical aspects and the evolution of the symptoms of envenoming. …”
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A case of envenomation caused by Oxybelis fulgidus (Serpentes, Colubridae) in Brazilian Amazon by Kamila Vieira Silva, Renato do Carmo Said, João Guilherme Pontes Lima Assy, Marcelo Ribeiro Duarte, Pasesa Pascuala Quispe Torrez, Francisco Oscar de Siqueira França

“…The venom of Oxybelis fulgidus, a neotropical rear-fanged snake, contains one of the four three-finger toxins already isolated from colubrid snakes, called fulgimotoxin. He was treated with oral analgesics and returned to the ambulatory in 48 hours, with good evolution. …”
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Reproductive biology of Echinanthera cyanopleura (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) in southern Brazil by Noeli Zanella, Sonia Z. Cechin

“…The reproductive cycle of this species is seasonal, which is usual for oviparous colubrids of temperate areas of Brazil.…”
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The Balearic herpetofauna: a species update and a review on the evidence by Samuel Pinya, Miguel A. Carretero

“…Compared to the last review (Mayol, 1985) six new reptile species are now naturalised or are in process of naturalization, colubrid snakes constituting the most conflicting element due to their predator role.…”
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Dieta de Thamnodynastes strigatus (Serpentes, colubridae) no sul do Brasil by Raquel Ruffato, Marcos Di-Bernardo, Gleomar Fabiano Maschio

“…We analyzed the gut content of 151 speciemens of the colubrid snake Thamnodynastes strigatus from the state of Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil. …”
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First records of the Dumeril’s Black-headed Snake Sibynophis subpunctatus (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) (Reptilia, Col... by Gandla Chethan Kumar, Chelmala Srinivasulu, Kante Krishna Prasad

“…Here we present the first report of the occurrence of the little known colubrid, Sibynophis subpunctatus (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854), from northern and southern forest reserves in Komaram Bheem-Asifabad and Nagarkurnool districts of Telangana. …”
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A large and unusually colored new snake species of the genus Tantilla (Squamata; Colubridae) from the Peruvian Andes by Claudia Koch, Pablo J. Venegas

“…A new colubrid species of the genus Tantilla from the dry forest of the northern Peruvian Andes is described on the basis of two specimens, which exhibit a conspicuous sexual dimorphism. …”
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A New Miocene-Divergent Lineage of Old World Racer Snake from India. by Zeeshan A Mirza, Raju Vyas, Harshil Patel, Jaydeep Maheta, Rajesh V Sanap

“…The snake is distinct morphologically in having a unique dorsal scale reduction formula not reported from any known colubrid snake genus. Uncorrected pairwise sequence divergence for nuclear gene cmos between Wallaceophis gen. et. gujaratenesis sp. nov. other members of the clade containing old world racers and whip snake is 21-36%.…”
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Gruesome twosome kukri rippers: Oligodon formosanus (Günther, 1872) and O. fasciolatus (Günther, 1864) eat Kaloula pulchra Gray, 1831 either by eviscerating or swallowing whole by Henrik Bringsøe, Maneerat Suthanthangjai, Winai Suthanthangjai, Jo Lodder, Navapol Komanasin

“…Predation on adult microhylid frogs Kaloula pulchra by two closely-related colubrid snakes is described, based on two observations of Oligodon formosanus in Hong Kong and one observation of O. fasciolatus in Thailand. …”
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Additional specimens of Eirenis coronelloides (Jan, 1862) (Ophidia: Colubridae) in western Iran by Behzad Fathinia, Nasrin Feili, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani, Ahmad Gharzi

“…The genus Eirenis encompasses 20 small-sized colubrid species, showing its highest diversity with 13 species in Iran. …”
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The complete mitochondrial genome of the greater green snake Cyclophiops major (Reptilia, Serpentes, Colubridae) by Hongji Sun, En Li, Long Sun, Peng Yan, Hui Xue, Fang Zhang, Xiaobing Wu

“…The greater green snake Cyclophiops major is a protected and colubrid species. Here, we investigated the complete mitochondrial genome of C. major. …”
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Field observations of mating behavior in the neck-banded snake Scaphiodontophis annulatus (Serpentes: Colubridae) by Mahmood Sasa, Sierra Curtis

“…We observed the mating behavior of the neck-banded snake Scaphiodontophis annulatus (a common species of colubrid in the South Pacific of Costa Rica) in the pre-montane wet forest of Las Cruces Biological Station (San Vito de Java, Costa Rica). …”
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The life-cycle and ultrastructure of Sarcocystis ameivamastigodryasi n. sp., in the lizard Ameiva ameiva (Teiidae) and the snake Mastigodryas bifossatus (Colubridae)(1) by Lainson R., Paperna I.

“…Sarcocysts in muscles of the teiid lizard Ameiva ameivafrom north Brazil were fed to the colubrid snake Mastigodryas bifossatus, the faeces of which had been shown to be devoid of coccidial oocysts or sporocysts. …”
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Two new syntopic species of wolf snakes (genus Lycodon H. Boie in Fitzinger, 1826) from an imperiled ecosystem in the Song Giang River Valley of southern Vietnam (Squamata: Colubri... by Anh The Nguyen, Tang Van Duong, Perry L. Wood Jr., L. Lee Grismer

“…An integrative taxonomic analysis of species in the colubrid genus Lycodon Fitzinger, 1826 recovered two new syntopic species of the L. rufozonatus complex from the imperiled Song Giang River valley in Khan Hoa Province, of Southern Vietnam. …”
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Identification and structural characterization of a new three-finger toxin hemachatoxin from Hemachatus haemachatus venom. by Vallerinteavide Mavelli Girish, Sundramurthy Kumar, Lissa Joseph, Chacko Jobichen, R Manjunatha Kini, J Sivaraman

“…Three-finger toxins are non-enzymatic proteins present in elapid (cobras, kraits, mambas and sea snakes) and colubrid venoms. These proteins contain four conserved disulfide bonds in the core to maintain the three-finger folds. …”
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The Balearic herpetofauna: A species update and a review on the evidence by Samuel Pinya, Miguel A. Carretero

“…Compared to the last review (Mayol, 1985) six new reptile species are now naturalised or are in process of naturalization, colubrid snakes constituting the most dangerous element due to its predator role. …”
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Sarcocystis stenodactylicolubris n. sp., a new sarcosporidian coccidium with a snake-gecko heteroxenous life cycle by Modrý D., Koudela B., Šlapeta J. R.

“…Based on obtained and already published results, Sarcosporidia parasitising colubrid snakes as definitive hosts are suggested to be family specific on the level of their intermediate host.…”
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Systematic Assessment of <i>Hebius beddomei</i> (Günther, 1864) (Serpentes: Colubridae: Natricinae) with Description of a New Genus and a New Allied Species from the Western Ghats,... by Harshil Patel, Tejas Thackeray, Patrick D. Campbell, Zeeshan A. Mirza

“…<i>Hebius beddomei</i> (Günther, 1864) is an endemic natricine colubrid snake species from the biodiverse Western Ghats, India. …”
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Antipredatory function of head shape for vipers and their mimics. by Janne K Valkonen, Ossi Nokelainen, Johanna Mappes

“…Plain snakes with narrower Colubrid-like heads suffered significantly higher predation by raptors than snakes with triangular-shaped heads. …”
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Sex chromosome diversification in the smooth snake Coronella austriaca (Reptilia, Serpentes) by Marcello Mezzasalma, Gaetano Odierna

“…The smooth snake Coronella austriaca is a widespread Palearctic colubrid species. The species has been the subject of several molecular and phylogeographic studies which highlighted the occurrence of distinct genetic lineages in different areas of the species distribution, but scarce cytogenetic data are currently available on the species. …”
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