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    Species Accepted

    Tachymenis peruviana Wiegmann, 1834

    Peru Slender Snake

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      7 results
      Cola corta del Perú Spanish
      Culebra andina Spanish
      Culebra de cola corta del norte Spanish
      Peru Slender Snake English
      Peru-Schlanknatter German
      Peruviansk Kratsnog Danish
      Перуанский тахименис Russian

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      28 results
      Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy. (2014). Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue]. Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 Pp.
      Miranda, B., et al. (2017). Tachymenis peruviana Reproduction. Herpetological Review 48 (2): 459.
      REYES-OLIVARES, CLAUDIO; ALEX VERA-QUISPE, ALEJANDRO ZÚÑIGA & FÉLIX A. URRA. (2022). Description of the antipredatory head-wobble behaviour in Chilean rear-fanged snakes Tachymenis peruviana Wiegmann, 1835 and Tachymenis chilensis coronellina Werner, 1898 (Serpentes, Dipsadidae). Herpetozoa 35: 155–158.
      Scrocchi, G.J.; Moreta, J.C. & Kretzschmar, S. (2006). Serpientes del Noroeste Argento [Jujuy, Salta, Tucumán, Catamarca, La Rioja, Santiago del Estero]. Fundación Miguel Lillo, Tucumán, 178 Pp.
      Cope, E. D. (1878). Synopsis of the cold blooded Vertebrata, procured by Prof. James Orton, during his exploration of Peru in 1876-77. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 17: 33-49 [1877].
      Werner, & FRANZ. (1901). Reptilien und Batrachier aus Peru und Bolivien. Abhandl. Ber. Zool. Anthrop. Mus. Dresden, 9 (2): 1-14 [1900].
      Cabral, H., A. Romero-Muñoz, D. J. Santana, et al. (2025). Diversity Loss and Homogenization in Snake Communities in a Deforestation Hotspot. Diversity and Distributions 31, No. 10: E70105.
      CATENAZZI, A., LEHR, E., & VON MAY, R. (2013). The amphibians and reptiles of Manu National Park and its buffer zone, Amazon basin and eastern slopes of the Andes, Peru. Biota Neotropica 13 (4): 269-283.
      Paredes, M., B. Miranda, J. Aparicio and L. F. Pacheco. (2016). Tachymenis peruviana underwater hunting behavior. Herpetological Review 47(3): 412.
      Barbour, T. (1915). A new snake from Southern Peru. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 28: 149-150.

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