Xenopholis undulatus ( Jensen, 1900 )

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 : 48

Xenopholis undulatus ( Jensen, 1900)

Type locality. Lagoa Santa , state of Minas Gerais, Brazil .

Distribution. Known from Brazil and Paraguay, mostly along the South American open diagonal ( Plt. 408A ). In Brazil, widespread in the Cerrado, with marginal isolated records in the Atlantic Forest, Araucaria Forest, and contact areas between Caatinga and Atlantic Forest ( Plt. 408A ), mostly at intermediate to high elevations ( Plt. 408B ). Observed in the field in gallery forest and upland forest ( FranÇa et al., 2008; Loebmann and Haddad, 2010).

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Plate 408. Distribution map of Xenopholis undulatus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.