Mussurana
Mussuranas ( Clelia )
Mussuranas ( Clelia ) are a genus of snakes. Best described here is the kind Clelia clelia. Although Mussuranas are medium -sized to large snakes, they are rarely found in nature. Even in collections, the genus is poorly represented.
System
The following eight species of this genus are known:
- Clelia clelia Daudin, 1803
- Clelia equatoriana Amaral, 1924
- Clelia errabunda Underwood, 1993
- Clelia hussami Morato, Franco & Sanches, 2003
- Clelia Langeri Reichle & Embert, 2005
- Clelia plumbea Wied, 1820
- Clelia rustica Cope, 1878
- Clelia scytalina Cope, 1867
The following species have been calculated earlier to Clelia, now spun off into a separate genus Mussurana.
- Mussurana bicolor Peracca, 1904
- Mussurana montana Franco, Marques & Puorto, 1997
- Mussurana Quimi Franco, Marques & Puorto, 1997
Clelia is part of the tribe Pseudoboini within the subfamily Dipsadinae. This is given by Vidal et al. the following system:
Pseudoboa
Boiruna
Clelia
Drepanoides
Mussurana
Phimophis
Oxyrhopus
Siphlophis
Accordingly, the species that are more closely related Drepanoides have been moved to the genus Mussurana. The sister species of Clelia is Boiruna.
Features
Juvenile Mussuranas have a white collar, are usually reddish with black stripes. Color you order as soon as they grow up; most species are then dyed dark. You reach a head -body length of 57-280 centimeters, with Clelia plumbea is the largest species. Females are generally larger than males. Mating season is probably all year, whether this also applies to the occurring in the cooler habitats species such as C. rustica, is unknown. Clelia are oviparous, that is oviparous. The number of eggs will depend on the size of the female clutch sizes 4-30 eggs were observed.
Dissemination
The snakes of the genus Clelia are mainly found in South America. Clelia clelia has the largest area of distribution, which in the south to Mexico and extends north to Uruguay. Clelia errabunda is endemic to the Caribbean island of St. Lucia.