Oxyrhopus trigeminus Duméril et al., 1854

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 : 38

Oxyrhopus trigeminus Duméril et al., 1854

Type locality. Bahia State, Brazil (via lectotype selection designated by Zaher and Caramaschi, 1992) .

Distribution. Known from Bolivia and Brazil ( Plt. 323A ). In Brazil, widespread in the Cerrado, and Caatinga and most of the Atlantic Forest,with marginal records in Pantanal, Chiquitano Dry Forest, Amazonia, and Araucaria Forest ( Plt. 323A ), mostly at intermediate to high elevations ( Plt. 323B ). Previous maps and taxonomy in Zaher and Caramaschi (1992). Observed in the field in grasslands, savannas, and xeric scrub ( Carvalho and Vilar, 2005; Vaz-Silva et al., 2007; Recoder et al., 2011; Guedes et al., 2014).

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Plate 323. Distribution map of Oxyrhopus trigeminus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.