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

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scientific name	Erythrolamprus viridis ( Günther, 1862 )
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Type locality. State of Pernambuco, Brazil .

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil ( Plt. 389A), recorded in the Caatinga and its contact areas with the Cerrado and Atlantic Forest ( Plt. 389A), mostly at low to intermediate elevations ( Plt. 389B). 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).

References

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