Philodryas laticeps Werner, 1900

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 : 36

Philodryas laticeps Werner, 1900

Type locality. “Santa Catharina, Brasilien,” tentatively located as Ilha de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis , Brazil, in Zaher et al. (2008b). However, a similarly named village (Santa Catarina, currently in Juramento municipality) is also found in northeastern Minas Gerais, close to confirmed records of this rare snake .

Distribution. Known from few and scattered records in Bolivia and Brazil ( Plt. 300A ). Apparently two disjunct populations, in Bolivia and southeastern Brazil, including eastern Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo.In Brazil,recorded in the Atlantic Forest ( Plt. 300A ), mostly at intermediate to high elevations ( Plt. 300B ). No detailed field data on habitat use are available for this species.

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Plate 300. Distribution map of Philodryas laticeps in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.