Ditaxodon taeniatus (Peters, 1868)

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 : 35

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.2994/SAJH-D-19-00120.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10063314
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scientific name	Ditaxodon taeniatus
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Ditaxodon taeniatus View in CoL (Peters in Hensel, 1868)

Type locality. Porto Alegre , Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Possibly in error ( Bérnils et al., 2008) .

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil ( Plt. 294A View Plate 294 ). Known from few and scattered records,mostly in Araucaria Forest, and marginally in the Cerrado and Atlantic Forest ( Plt. 294A View Plate 294 ), mostly at high elevations ( Plt. 294B View Plate 294 ). Observed in the field in montane grassland ( Thomas et al., 2006).