Rhachidelus brazili Boulenger, 1908

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 : 39

Rhachidelus brazili Boulenger, 1908

Type locality. Uncertain locality “near São Paulo,” Brazil .

Distribution. Known Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina ( Plt. 334A ). In Brazil, recorded in the western and central portion of the Cerrado and its contact areas with the Atlantic Forest ( Plt. 334A ), mostly at intermediate to high elevations ( Plt. 334B ). Observed in the field in grassland and open savanna ( FranÇa et al., 2008; Valdujo et al., 2009; Nogueira et al., 2011).

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Plate 334. Distribution map of Rhachidelus brazili in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation.Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.