Apostolepis polylepis ( Amaral, 1922 )

Nogueira, Cristiano C., Argôlo, Antonio J. S., Arzamendia, Vanesa, Azevedo, Josué A., Barbo, Fausto E., Bérnils, Renato S., Bolochio, Bruna E., Borges-Martins, Marcio, Brasil-Godinho, Marcela, Braz, Henrique, Buononato, Marcus A., Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F., Colli, Guarino R., Costa, Henrique C., Franco, Francisco L., Giraudo, Alejandro, Gonzalez, Rodrigo C., Guedes, Thaís, Hoogmoed, Marinus S., Marques, Otavio A. V., Montingelli, Giovanna G., Passos, Paulo, Prudente, Ana L. C., Rivas, Gilson A., Sanchez, Paola M., Serrano, Filipe C., Silva Jr., Nelson J., Strüssmann, Christine, Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S., Zaher, Hussam, Sawaya, Ricardo J. & Martins, Marcio, 2019, Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna, South American Journal of Herpetology 14 (s 1), pp. 1-274 : 31

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.2994/SAJH-D-19-00120.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10063172
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scientific name	Apostolepis polylepis ( Amaral, 1922 )
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Apostolepis polylepis ( Amaral, 1922) View in CoL

Type locality. Village of Engenheiro Dodt , currently Santa Filomena, state of Piauí, Brazil .

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil ( Plt. 251A View Plate 251 ), restricted to the northeastern portion of the Cerrado ( Plt. 251A View Plate 251 ) at low to intermediate elevations ( Plt. 251B View Plate 251 ). Observed in the field in open savanna and grassland on sandy soils ( Nogueira et al., 2011; Recoder et al., 2011).