Simophis rhinostoma ( Schlegel, 1837 )

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 : 20

Simophis rhinostoma ( Schlegel, 1837)

Type locality. Brazil .

Distribution. Known from Brazil and Paraguay,mostly in upland areas of the Brazilian shield ( Plt. 145A ). In Brazil, recorded in the southern portion of the Cerrado and its contact with the Atlantic Forest, with an isolated record in Caatinga ( Plt. 145A ). Most records in areas of intermediate to high elevations ( Plt. 145B ). Observed in the field in savanna and grassland ( Colli et al., 2002; FranÇa et al., 2008; Sawaya et al., 2008).

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Plate 145. Distribution map of Simophis rhinostoma in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.