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Two-colored mussurana
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Genus:
Mussurana
Species:
bicolor
Synonyms
  • Oxyrhopus bicolor
    Peracca, 1904
  • Clelia bicolor
    — J. Peters & Orejas-Miranda, 1970
  • Mussurana bicolor
    — Zaher et al., 2009

Mussurana bicolor, the two-colored mussurana, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to southern South America.

Geographic range

M. bicolor is found in Argentina, southern Brazil, Paraguay, and Peru.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of M. bicolor are grassland, savanna, and forest.

Description

M. bicolor may attain a maximum total length (including tail) of 99 cm (39 in). Adults are gray or brown dorsally, and ivory ventrally. Juveniles are brick red dorsally, with a black vertebral stripe.

Reproduction

M. bicolor is oviparous.

See also

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