Apostolepis ambiniger ( Peters, 1869 )

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 : 29

Apostolepis ambiniger ( Peters, 1869)

Type locality. Paraguay .

Distribution. Known from Brazil and Paraguay ( Plt. 229A ). In Brazil, known from the Pantanal and the southwestern portion of the Cerrado, including an isolated and questionable record in Ipanema Farm, Iperó, São Paulo state ( Plt. 229A ), at intermediate elevations ( Plt. 229B ). Previous maps and taxonomy in Lema et al. (2005a). Observed in the field in open savannas on sandy soils (CS, pers. obs.).

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Plate 229. Distribution map of Apostolepis ambiniger in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.