Erythrolamprus almadensis ( Wagler, 1824 )

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 : 43

Erythrolamprus almadensis ( Wagler, 1824)

Type locality. Almada , Itajuipe, state of Bahia, Brazil .

Distribution. Known from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Uruguay, and Paraguay ( Plt. 368A ). In Brazil, widespread in the Cerrado,Pampa Grasslands and most of the Atlantic Forest, with marginal records in the Caatinga, Amazonia, Araucaria Forest, and Chiquitano Dry Forest ( Plt. 368A ) from low to high elevations ( Plt. 368B ). Previous map and taxonomy in Dixon (1989). Observed in the field in grasslands, wet grasslands, and palm marshes ( Strüssmann and Sazima, 1993; Recoder et al., 2011).

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Plate 368. Distribution map of Erythrolamprus almadensis in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.