The false fer-de-lance, Xenodon rabdocephalus (Wied-Neuwied, 1824) is a diurnal and terrestrial snake found in proximity to water bodies in primary and secondary forests in the Mexican lowlands, southern Central America to the northwest of Ecuador, west of the Andes, Colombian and Peruvian Amazon, and in Brazilian rainforests (Savage, 2002; Cole et al., 2013; Nogueira et al., 2019). In Brazil, the