Lygophis lineatus ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

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 : 46

Lygophis lineatus ( Linnaeus, 1758)

Type locality. “Asia” (in error, Hoge and Romano, 1978).

Distribution. Known from Brazil,French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela, on open portions of the Guiana Shield ( Plt. 393A ). In Brazil, recorded in northern Amazonia and in Guianan savannas ( Plt. 393A ) at low elevations ( Plt. 393B ). Previous map and taxonomy in Dixon (1989). Observed in the field in grassland ( Staton and Dixon,1977).

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Plate 393. Distribution map of Lygophis lineatus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.