Lygophis elegantissimus

Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Dipsadinae
Genus: Lygophis
Species:

Lygophis elegantissimus (Koslowsky, 1896)

• Holotype: MLP, ♀, collected by J. Koslowsky and N. Alboff in 1890. [lost fide Williams in Dixon (1985: 571)]
• Type locality: “Sierra de la Ventana”.

• Rhadinaea elegantissima Koslowsky, 1896: 155 [original combination]
• Lygophis elegantissimus — Zaher et al., 2009: 147 [subsequent combination]

• Koslowsky, J.G. 1896. Reptiles y Batracios de la Sierra de la Ventana. Revista del Museo de La Plata 7: 149–156. BHL Reference page. 
• Zaher, H., Grazziotin, F.G., Cadle, J.E., Murphy, R.W., Moura-Leite, J.C. & Bonatto, S.L. 2009. Molecular phylogeny of advanced snakes (Serpentes, Caenophidia) with an emphasis on South American xenodontines: a revised classification and descriptions of new taxa. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 49(11): 115–153. DOI: 10.1590/S0031-10492009001100001 Reference page. 

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Lygophis elegantissimus. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 28 December 2021.