Cercophis Fitzinger, 1843

Luna, Igor Veronese de, Ugalde, Miguel Relvas, Guimarães, Mariana Rocha Santos, Hoffmann, Kauann, Citeli, Nathalie, Kiefer, Mara Cintia & Hamdan, Breno, 2025, Fig. 3 in Positive association between PTN polymorphisms and schizophrenia in Northeast Chinese Han population., Zoological Studies 64 (20), pp. 141-149 : 5

Cercophis Fitzinger, 1843

1. Body tan, brown, grey, or grey-brown, with or without 2 longitudinal series of irregular, triangular black spots alternating on both sides of body and tail; belly yellowish or milky white with black dots, more or less forming 2 indistinct longitudinal stripes; upper labials with light and dark spots, a larger white area below the eye, with inverted triangular spot at the border of 4th and 5th supralabial scale ................ Cercophis auratus ( Fig. 19d )

Figures

Fig. 19. Representative Dipsadidae Snakes of Rio de Janeiro: a, Atractus francoi from Paraty/RJ; b, Atractus zebrinus from Sapucaí-Mirim/SP; c, Caaeteboia amarali from Jacupiranga/SP; d, Cercophis auratus from Rio de Janeiro/RJ; e, Chlorosoma laticeps from São João da Barra/RJ; f, Clelia plumbea juvenile from Brazil; g, Clelia plumbea adult from Prado/BA; h, Coronelaps lepidus from Brazil. RJ = Rio de Janeiro, SP = São Paulo, BA= Bahia. Photos by Antônio Jorge Suzart Argôlo (h); Carlos Henrique de Oliveira Nogueira (e); Hugo Cabral (f); Jorge Antônio Lourenço Pontes (a); Luiz Eduardo Mendonça Regio (d); Marcelo Ribeiro Duarte (b, c); Thiago Silva-Soares (g).