Trilepida koppesi ( Amaral, 1955 )

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 : 6

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https://doi.org/10.2994/SAJH-D-19-00120.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10062337

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scientific name

Trilepida koppesi ( Amaral, 1955 )
status

 

Trilepida koppesi ( Amaral, 1955) View in CoL

Type locality. Terenos , state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil .

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil ( Plt. 22A View Plate 22 ), recorded in the southern portion of the Cerrado and its contact with the Atlantic Forest and Pantanal ( Plt. 22A View Plate 22 ). Most records at intermediate elevations ( Plt. 22B View Plate 22 ). Observed in the field in savannas and grasslands ( FranÇa and Araújo, 2006; Sawaya et al., 2008; Valdujo et al., 2009; Freitas et al., 2012).

Amaral A. 1955. ContribuiCao ao conhecimento dos ofidios neotropicos: 14. DescriCao de duas especies novas de cobra-cega (fam. Leptotyphlopidae). Memorias do Instituto Butantan 26: 203 - 205.

Franca F. G. R., Araujo A. F. B. 2006. The conservation status of snakes in Central Brazil. South American Journal of Herpetology 1: 25 - 36. DOI

Freitas M. A., Franca D. P. F., Graboski R., Uhlig V., Verissimo D. 2012. Notes on the conservation status, geographic distribution and ecology of Bothrops muriciensis Ferrarezzi & Freire, 2001 (Serpentes, Viperidae). North-Western Journal of Zoology 8: 338 - 343.

Sawaya R. J., Marques O. A. V., Martins M. 2008. Composition and natural history of a Cerrado snake assemblage at Itirapina, Sao Paulo state, southeastern Brazil. Biota Neotropica 8: 127 - 149. DOI

Valdujo P. H., Nogueira C. C., Baumgarten L., Rodrigues F. H. G., Brandao R. A., Eterovic A., … Marques O. A. V. 2009. Squamate reptiles from Parque Nacional das Emas and surroundings, Cerrado of Central Brazil. Check List 5: 405 - 417. DOI

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Plate 22. Distribution map of Trilepida koppesi in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Leptotyphlopidae

Genus

Trilepida