Helicops (snake)

Helicops is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae. The genus is endemic to South America.

Species

The following 20 species are recognized as being valid.

• Helicops acangussu
• Helicops angulatus – brown-banded water snake
• Helicops apiaka
• Helicops boitata
• Helicops carinicaudus – Wied's keelback
• Helicops danieli – Daniel's keelback
• Helicops gomesi – São Paulo keelback
• Helicops hagmanni – Hagmann's keelback
• Helicops infrataeniatus
• Helicops leopardinus – leopard keelback
• Helicops modestus – olive keelback
• Helicops nentur
• Helicops pastazae – Shreve's keelback
• Helicops petersi – spiral keelback
• Helicops phantasma
• Helicops polylepis – Norman's keelback
• Helicops scalaris – ladder keelback
• Helicops tapajonicus
• Helicops trivittatus – equatorial keelback
• Helicops yacu – Peru keelback

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Helicops.

References

Further reading

• (1982). Snakes of South America. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. . (Helicops, p. 99).
• Wagler J (1828). Descriptiones et Icones Amphibiorum. Part I, Plates I-XIII. Munich, Stuttgart, Tübingen: J.G. Cotta. (Helicops, new genus, Plate VII). (in Latin).
• https://serpientesdevenezuela.org/helicops-scalaris/