Amerotyphlops brongersmianus (Vanzolini, 1976)

Type locality. Barra de Itaípe, Ilhéus, state of Bahia, Brazil .

Distribution. Widespread in South America, known from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela (Plt. 3A). In Brazil, recorded in all ecoregions except Araucaria Forest and Pampas Grasslands (Plt. 3A), mostly at low elevations (Plt. 3B). Observed in the field in forest (Martins and Oliveira, 1998), including semideciduous (Ávila et al., 2006) and gallery forest (Nogueira et al., 2011).