Thamnodynastes hypoconia ( Cope, 1860 )

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 : 42

Thamnodynastes hypoconia ( Cope, 1860)

Type locality. Buenos Aires, Argentina .

Distribution. Known from Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay ( Plt. 354A ). In Brazil, widespread in the Cerrado, Pantanal, Atlantic Forest, and Pampas Grasslands, with marginal records in the Araucaria Forest and the Caatinga ( Plt. 354A ) from low to high elevations ( Plt. 354B ). Observed in the field in wet grasslands, palm marshes, and gallery forest ( FranÇa and Araújo, 2006; Martins et al., 2008b; Hartmann et al., 2009; Guedes et al., 2014).

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Plate 354. Distribution map of Thamnodynastes hypoconia in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.