Bothrops erythromelas Amaral, 1923

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 erythromelas Amaral, 1923

Type locality. Near Juazeiro , state of Bahia, Brazil .

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil ( Plt. 59A ). Widespread in the Caatinga, with marginal records in the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado ( Plt. 59A ) at low to high elevations ( Plt. 59B ). Previous maps and taxonomy in Silva and Rodrigues (2008). Observed in the field in open xeric vegetation including herbaceous, arboreal, and bushy caatinga, and also in rocky outcrops ( Guedes et al., 2014).

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Plate 59. Distribution map of Bothrops erythromelas in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.