Taeniophallus occipitalis ( Jan, 1863 )

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 : 28

Taeniophallus occipitalis ( Jan, 1863)

Type locality. State of Bahia, Brazil .

Distribution. Known from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay, mostly along the South American open diagonal ( Plt. 223A ). In Brazil, recorded in all ecoregions south of the Amazon River, being widespread in the Cerrado and Pampas Grasslands and their contacts with Atlantic Forest, Pantanal, and Caatinga, including scattered records in Amazonia ( Plt. 223A ), from low to high elevations ( Plt. 223B ). Observed in the field in secondary forest, savanna, coastal dunes (restinga), and disturbed areas ( Santos et al., 2008; FranÇa et al., 2012; Serrano et al., 2019).

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Plate 223. Distribution map of Taeniophallus occipitalis in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.