Bothrops neuwiedi Wagler, 1824

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 : 12

Bothrops neuwiedi Wagler in Spix, 1824

Type locality. State of Bahia, Brazil .

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil ( Plt. 72A ). Recorded in the Atlantic Forest, Araucaria Forest, and southeastern portion of the Cerrado, with an isolated record in the Caatinga ( Plt. 72A ), mostly at high elevations ( Plt. 72B ). Previous maps and taxonomy in Silva and Rodrigues (2008). Observed in the field in grassland, savanna, rocky grassland, and disturbed areas ( Silva and Rodrigues, 2008; Bérnils, 2009; São-Pedro and Pires, 2009; FranÇa et al., 2012).

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Plate 72. Distribution map of Bothrops neuwiedi in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.