Erythrolamprus viridis ( Günther, 1862 )

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

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10063594

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scientific name

Erythrolamprus viridis ( Günther, 1862 )
status

 

Erythrolamprus viridis ( Günther, 1862) View in CoL

Type locality. State of Pernambuco, Brazil .

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil ( Plt. 389A View Plate 389 ), recorded in the Caatinga and its contact areas with the Cerrado and Atlantic Forest ( Plt. 389A View Plate 389 ), mostly at low to intermediate elevations ( Plt. 389B View Plate 389 ). Previous map and taxonomy in Dixon (1985, 1989). Observed in the field in dry forest, xeric scrub, and rock outcrops in the Caatinga ( Guedes et al., 2014).

Dixon J. R. 1985. A review of Liophis anomalus and Liophis elegantissimus, and the description of a new species (Serpentes: Colubridae). Copeia 1985: 565 - 573. DOI

Dixon J. R. 1989. A key and checklist to the Neotropical snake genus Liophis with country lists and maps. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service 79: 1 - 40. DOI

Guedes T. B., Nogueira C., Marques O. A. V. 2014. Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863: 1 - 93. DOI

Gunther A. C. L. G. 1862. On new species of snakes in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London (Series 3) 9: 52 - 59. DOI

Gallery Image

Plate 389. Distribution map of Erythrolamprus viridis 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

Colubridae

Genus

Erythrolamprus