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Schlegel's golden snake

genus of reptiles

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ14423581 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cercophis is a genus of snake in the family Colubridae that contains the sole species Cercophis auratus. It is called Schlegel's golden snake.

It is found in Suriname and Brazil.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Schlegel's golden snake” is genus of reptiles. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Schlegel's, golden and snake, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current 30-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Schlegel's, golden and snake is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Schlegel's golden snake” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.