Fronted ground snake
Lygophis flavifrenatus Cope, 1862
Status not recordedsnakes
The fronted ground snake (Lygophis flavifrenatus) is a species in the family Colubridae, order Squamata. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Brazil.
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Quick facts about the fronted ground snake
- Weight
- up to 82.7 gsrc for Weight
- Length
- up to 76 cmsrc for Length
- Lifespan
- Not recorded
- Diet
- Carnivoresrc for Diet
- Main food
- Not recorded
- Habitat
- forestsrc for Habitat
- Young per litter or clutch
- 10src for Young per litter or clutch
- Reproduction
- Eggssrc for Reproduction
- Conservation status
- Not recorded
- Countries on record
- 1 countrysrc for Countries on record
Where does the fronted ground snake live?
Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.
The fronted ground snake is listed for 1 country.
- Listed
- Not listed
The same countries as a list
Why a country list is not a range map
Listed by: ReptileDB (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.
Is the fronted ground snake endangered?
No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.
How is the fronted ground snake classified?
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- classReptilia
- orderSquamata
- familyColubridae
- genusLygophis
- SpeciesLygophis flavifrenatus Cope, 1862
Synonyms Dromicus amabilis, Liophis flavifrenatus, Zamenis parallelus, Zamenis vogti
Other names and names in other languages (7)
- Yellow bridled snakeEnglish
- Gulbåndet JordsnogDanish
- Gelbband-GoldbauchnatterGerman
- Corre-CampoPortuguese
- Cobra-ListradaPortuguese
- Corredeira-ListradaPortuguese
- Jararaca-ListradaPortuguese
Relatives of the fronted ground snake
Other species in the same genus Lygophis.
Golden-belly snake
Lygophis anomalus
Lema's ground snake
Lygophis dilepis
Elegant ground snake
Lygophis elegantissimus
Hoge's ground snake
Lygophis paucidens
Southern striped snake
Lygophis meridionalis
Lined ground snake
Lygophis lineatus
CompareFronted ground snake vs Golden-belly snakeFronted ground snake vs Lema's ground snakeFronted ground snake vs Elegant ground snakeFronted ground snake vs Hoge's ground snake
Common questions
Answered only where our data holds the answer.
Where does the fronted ground snake live?
Catalogue of Life checklists list the fronted ground snake for 1 country: Brazil. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.
What kind of animal is the fronted ground snake?
The fronted ground snake (Lygophis flavifrenatus) belongs to the family Colubridae in the order Squamata.
Sources and how to cite this page
Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.
- An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles · CC0 1.0 · E096-269
Myhrvold, N.P., Baldridge, E., Chan, B., Sivam, D., Freeman, D.L. & Ernest, S.K.M. (2015) An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96: 3109. https://doi.org/10.1890/15-0846R.1. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3563457.v1 - Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf - ReptTraits: a comprehensive dataset of ecological traits in reptiles · CC BY 4.0 · v1-2
Oskyrko, O., Mi, C., Meiri, S. et al. (2024) ReptTraits: a comprehensive dataset of ecological traits in reptiles. Scientific Data 11: 243. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03079-5. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.24572683.v4 - SquamBase 1.0 - a dataset of squamate species traits · CC0 1.0 · 1.0-dryad-v5
Meiri, S. (2024) SquamBase - a database of squamate (Reptilia: Squamata) traits. Global Ecology and Biogeography 33(4): e13812. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13812. Data: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.76hdr7t3b
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