Thamnodynastes strigatus ( Günther, 1858 )

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 : 42

Thamnodynastes strigatus ( Günther, 1858)

Type locality. “ India ” (in error). Corrected to South America by Hoge (1953) .

Distribution. Known from Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay ( Plt. 362A ). In Brazil, widespread in Pampas Grasslands and the southern portion of the Atlantic Forest, with marginal records in the Araucaria Forest and Cerrado ( Plt. 362A ). Found mostly at low elevations along the southern part of the range, but restricted to high elevation areas near its northern limits ( Plt. 362B ). Observed in the field in forest ( Franco and Ferreira, 2003a; Martins et al., 2008b; Marques et al., 2009).

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Plate 362. Distribution map of Thamnodynastes strigatus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.