
Breno Hamdan, Anieli Guirro Pereira, Letícia Loss-Oliveira, Dennis Rödder, Carlos G. Schrago,
... biodiversity far to be achieved. The occurrence of Chironius snakes in well-defined biogeographical regions led us to adopt Chironius as a model to unveil patterns of vertebrate ... markers and records on geographic distribution to investigate Chironius evolution and, subsequently, providing hints on diversification in ... times, inference of the coalescent-based phylogeny of Chironius, estimation of effective population sizes and modeling potential ... last millennia. We tested for species boundaries within Chironius by implementing a coalescent-based Bayesian species delimitation ...
Tópico(s): Genetic diversity and population structure
2017 - Elsevier BV | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
... a phylogeny of the Latin American snake genus Chironius based on 36 external morphological and hemipenal characters. ... the literature for the 20 recognized species of Chironius were combined with data I collected from 20 ... assessed the monophyly and in-group relationships of Chironius using both parsimony and methods. Two optimal trees were obtained using parsimony criteria; the genus Chironius is supported as monophyletic with 93% bootstrap support ... analysis of the data supports the monophyly of Chironius with a posterior probability of 100%. Both analyses ...
Tópico(s): Genetic diversity and population structure
2006 - Herpetologists' League | Herpetologica

Otávio Augusto Vuolo Marques, Ronaldo Fernandes, Roberta R. Pinto,
... morphometry and diet of two sympatric species of Chironius (C. flavolineatus and C. quadricarinatus) from Brazilian Cerrado ... two snake species differ in external morphology, as Chironius flavolineatus was the largest species (body, tail and ... suggesting that juveniles and adults use similar substrates. Chironius flavolineatus and C. quadricarinatus present a semi-arboreal ... behaviour, feeding in the ground most of time. Chironius flavolineatus uses higher vegetation for resting and, based ...
Tópico(s): Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
2008 - Brill | Amphibia-Reptilia

Omar Torres‐Carvajal, Lourdes Y. Echevarría, Simón E. Lobos, Pablo J. Venegas, Philippe J. R. Kok,
Neotropical sipo snakes (Chironius) are large diurnal snakes with a long tail and big eyes that differ from other Neotropical snakes in having ... phylogenetic methods to (1) test the monophyly of Chironius and some of its widely distributed species; (2) ... we identified 14 subclades as putative species within Chironius fuscus, C. multiventris (including C. foveatus and C. ... as much genetic diversity as other species of Chironius for ND4. Biogeographical analyses using BioGeoBEARS suggest that current distribution patterns of Chironius species across South America resulted from multiple range ...
Tópico(s): Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
2018 - Elsevier BV | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Roberta R. Pinto, Otávio Augusto Vuolo Marques, Ronaldo Fernandes,
Abstract The reproductive biology of Chironius flavolineatus and C. quadricarinatus from the Brazilian Cerrado domain is described, including sexual maturity, female fecundity, and reproductive cycles of males ... season, whereas males exhibit year-round sperm production. Chironius quadricarinatus has continuous reproductive cycles in both sexes. ... related to phylogenetic constraints on intrageneric lineages of Chironius.
Tópico(s): Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
2010 - Brill | Amphibia-Reptilia

Julia Klaczko, Giovanna G. Montingelli, Hussam Zaher,
Chironius is one of the most speciose genera of the South American colubrid snakes. Although the genus ... questions. Here, we present a phylogenetic analysis of Chironius based on a data matrix that combines one ... analyses strongly support the monophyly of the genus Chironius and its sister-group relationship with a clade ... Dendrophidion and Drymobius. Phylogenetic relationships within the genus Chironius is still controversial, although five clades are retrieved ...
Tópico(s): Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
2014 - Oxford University Press | Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Otávio Augusto Vuolo Marques, Iván Sazima,
genus Chironius include 20 species that dwell mainly in rainforests of Central and South America (Dixon et al. 1993). ... Dixon et al. 1993, Marques et al. 2001). Chironius flavolineatus is regarded as the only species with ... suggestion about systematic affinities between two species of Chironius (Serpentes, Colubridae)
Tópico(s): Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
2003 - UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO | Phyllomedusa Journal of Herpetology
A new colubrid snake of the genus Chironius Fitzinger, 1826 is described from the Pantepui region, Guiana Shield, northern South America. The new species, C. challenger sp. nov., is identified as a member of the genus Chironius by its low number of dorsal scale rows (< ... 39–41 maxillary teeth. A key to the Chironius species of the Guiana Shield is provided.
Tópico(s): Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
2010 - Q15088586 | Zootaxa

Otávio Augusto Vuolo Marques, Selma M. Almeida‐Santos, Murilo Guimarães Rodrigues, Ricardo de Camargo,
Chironius bicarinatus is a common colubrid snake, widely distributed throughout the Atlantic Forest. Field observations of copulation ... characterization of the reproductive cycle of this species. Chironius bicarinatus has a seasonal reproductive cycle with extended ...
Tópico(s): Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
2009 - | South American Journal of Herpetology

Daniel Silva Fernandes, Breno Hamdan,
We describe a new species of Chironius Fitzinger, 1826 from the highlands of Chapada Diamantina, state of Bahia, Brazil. The new species is distinguished from all currently recognized congeners ... ornamentation, and hemipenis. The new species closely resembles Chironius flavolineatus (Jan, 1863) in color pattern, but differs ...
Tópico(s): Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
2014 - Q15088586 | Zootaxa

Julia Klaczko, Fábio A. Machado, Gustavo Scrocchi, Hussam Zaher,
Recently four subspecies of Chironius multiventris were recognized as valid distinct species: C. m. foveatus, C. m. multiventris, C. m. cochranae, and C. m. septentrionalis. ...
Tópico(s): Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
2010 - Herpetologists' League | Herpetologica

JAL. Pontes, R. C. Pontes, CFD. Rocha,
... were: Liophis miliaris (n = 33), Micrurus corallinus and Chironius fuscus (both with n = 26); the least abundant: ... greatest biomass were Spilotes pullatus (7,925 g), Chironius laevicollis (4,694 g), Liophis miliaris (3,675 ...
Tópico(s): Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
2009 - Instituto Internacional de Ecologia (Brazil) | Brazilian Journal of Biology

Paulo José Pyles Cicchi, Marco Aurélio de Sena, Denise Maria Peccinini-Seale, Marcelo Ribeiro Duarte,
... of the eighteen islands were B. jararacussu and Chironius bicarinatus. The most common snake species on coastal ... of the eighteen islands and B. jararacussu and Chironius bicarinatus which were found in ten of the ...
Tópico(s): Turtle Biology and Conservation
2007 - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de SP | Biota Neopropica/Biota Neotropica

Breno Hamdan, Daniel Silva Fernandes,
We conducted a taxonomic review of Chironius flavolineatus on the basis of continuous and discrete morphological characters. We recognize a new species which is distinguished from all currently recognized ...
Tópico(s): Species Distribution and Climate Change
2015 - Q15088586 | Zootaxa

R. J. Da Silva, Renato Ranzini Rodrigues, M. F. B. STEIN, G. P. M. SIPOLI, R. PINHÃO, Carlos Lopes,
... in the mouth and esophagus of the snake Chironius exoletus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Ophidia: Colubridae) at the serpentarium ...
Tópico(s): Insect and Pesticide Research
1999 - BioMed Central | Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins

Tatiana Feitosa Quirino, Amilton Ferreira, M. C. Silva, Reinaldo José da Silva, Drausio Honório Morais, Róbson Waldemar Ávila,
... Salvator merianae, Enyalius bilineatus, Amphisbaena alba, Xenopholis undulatus, Chironius fuscus, Helicops angulatus, Chironius flavolineatus, Erythrolamprus viridis and Crotalus durissus) collected in ...
Tópico(s): Vector-borne infectious diseases
2018 - Instituto Internacional de Ecologia (Brazil) | Brazilian Journal of Biology

Davor Vrcibradic, Alexia Eisfeld,
Snakes in the Neotropical genus Chironius are mainly batrachophagous, and tend to consume relatively small prey. We present a report of a juvenile Chironius bicarinatus that had ingested a house gecko ( Hemidactylus ... is unusual for a snake of the genus Chironius , as is the consumption of lizards. Consumption of ...
Tópico(s): Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
2016 - Asociación Herpetológica Argentina | Cuadernos de herpetología/Cuadernos de herpetología

Daniel Cunha Passos, Lucas Henrique Allori Glauss, Conrado A. B. Galdino,
... hylid frog Bokermannohyla alvarengai by the colubrid snake Chironius flavolineatus in a montane rocky grassland in Santana ...
Tópico(s): Turtle Biology and Conservation
2017 - | Revista Brasileira de Zoociências

Soraya A. Machado, Yuriy Kuzmin, Vasyl V. Tkach, Jeannie Nascimento dos Santos, Evonnildo Costa Gonçalves, Francisco Tiago de Vasconcelos Melo,
... n. sp., is described from a colubroid snake Chironius exoletus from Caxiuanã National Forest, State of Pará, ...
Tópico(s): Leech Biology and Applications
2018 - Elsevier BV | Parasitology International

Omar Machado Entiauspe-Neto, Mariana L. Lyra, Claudia Koch, Fernando Marques Quintela, Arthur Diesel Abegg, Daniel Loebmann,
Chironius bicarinatus is a conspicuous colubrid snake species, widely distributed in northeastern, southeastern, central-western, and southern ...
Tópico(s): Venomous Animal Envenomation and Studies
2020 - Illinois Natural History Survey | Herpetological Monographs

Breno Hamdan, Stefano Scali, Daniel Silva Fernandes,
The snake genus Chironius Fitzinger, 1826 is endemic to the Neotropical region, occurring from Honduras to Uruguay and northeastern Argentina. Some species of ...
Tópico(s): Species Distribution and Climate Change
2014 - Q15088586 | Zootaxa
Chironius is a genus of slender snakes adapted to a diurnal and arboreal life style, and is ...
Tópico(s): Animal and Plant Science Education
2015 - Asociación Herpetológica Española | Basic and Applied Herpetology
... position in species of the neotropical whipsnakes genus Chironius, Acta Zoologica 95, no.33 (Apr 2013): 341– ...
Tópico(s): Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
1903 - University of Chicago Press | The American Naturalist
Marinus Steven Hoogmoed, Ulrich F. Gruber,
... current opinion that this is a species of Chironius. Bothrops Megaera Wagler and B. leucurus Wagler are ...
Tópico(s): Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
1983 - Bavarian State Collection of Zoology | Spixiana

Thales de Lema, Marisa Ibarra Vieira, Moema Leitão de Araújo,
... do Mar»).The new records are: presence of Chironius pyrrhopogon, Hydrodynastes gigas, Bothrops neuwiedi paranaensis, Micrurus corallinus; ...
Tópico(s): Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
1983 - Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia | Revista Brasileira de Zoologia
Rose M. Henderson, Richard A. Sajdak, Robert W. Henderson,
Tópico(s): Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
1988 - Brill | Amphibia-Reptilia

Jorge Antônio Lourenço Pontes, Gilberto Salles Gazêta, Davor Vrcibradic, Carlos Frederico Duarte Rocha,
... by the colubrids Xenodon neuwiedii Günther, 1820 (33%), Chironius laevicollis (Wied, 1824) and Spilotes pullatus (Linnaeus, 1758) ( ...
Tópico(s): Study of Mite Species
2009 - Pensoft Publishers | Zoologia (Curitiba)
Marilene Vasconcelos da Silva, Moisés Barbosa de Souza, Paulo Sérgio Bernarde,
... esperado em literatura, registrando-se novos itens para Chironius carinatus e Micrurus lemniscatus (roedor), Clelia clelia (aves) ...
Tópico(s): Amphibian and Reptile Biology
2010 - | Revista Brasileira de Zoociências

Tatiana Camolez, Hussam Zaher,
... Corallus cf. hortulanus, Epicrates cenchria, Mastigodryas cf. bifossatus, Chironius sp., Pseustes cf. sulphureus, Tantilla sp., Helicops gr. ...
Tópico(s): Morphological variations and asymmetry
2010 - Museum of Zoology of the University of São Paulo | Arquivos de Zoologia

João F. R. Tonini, Lívia de Moraes Carão, Israel de Souza Pinto, João Luiz Gasparini, Yuri Luiz Reis Leite, Leonora Pires Costa,
... the tree frog Hypsiboas faber by the snake Chironius bicarinatus. Out of the species listed, five species ...
Tópico(s): Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
2010 - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de SP | Biota Neopropica/Biota Neotropica