Apostolepis roncadori Lema, 2016

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 : 31

Apostolepis roncadori Lema, 2016

Type locality. Base Camp of the Xavantina- Cachimbo expedition, Serra do Roncador, Ribeirão Cascalheira, state of state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, according to specimen label in the NHM .

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil ( Plt. 254A ). Known only from the type locality in the northwestern portion of the Cerrado ( Plt. 254A ) at intermediate elevations ( Plt. 254B ). No detailed field data on habitat use are available for this species.

Figures

Plate 254. Distribution map of Apostolepis roncadori in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.