Apostolepis phillipsi Harvey, 1999

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 : 31

Apostolepis phillipsi Harvey, 1999

Type locality. Estancia El Refugio, Parque Nacional Noel Kempff Mercado, Velasco Province , Santa Cruz, Bolívia .

Distribution. Known from Bolivia and Brazil ( Plt. 250A ). In Brazil, restricted to the Huanchaca/Ricardo Franco Plateau at the border of Bolivia and Brazil and the contact between the Cerrado and Chiquitano Dry Forest ( Plt. 250A ) at intermediate elevations ( Plt. 250B ). We retain the species epithet Apostolepis phillipsi , based on the principle of taxonomic stability ( Colli et al., 2019). Observed in the field in seasonally dry hillside forest ( Harvey, 1999; Colli et al., 2019).

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Plate 250. Distribution map of Apostolepis phillipsi in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation.Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.