Bothrops itapetiningae ( Boulenger, 1907 )

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 : 11

Bothrops itapetiningae ( Boulenger, 1907)

Type locality. Itapetininga , state of São Paulo, Brazil .

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil ( Plt. 62A ). Recorded in the southern portion of the Cerrado, with marginal records in contact areas with the Atlantic Forest ( Plt. 62A ) at intermediate to high elevations ( Plt. 62B ). Previous maps and taxonomy in Campbell and Lamar (2004). Observed in the field grasslands and savannas ( Marques et al., 2002; Sawaya et al., 2008; Leão et al., 2014).

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Plate 62. Distribution map of Bothrops itapetiningae in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.