Tantilla melanocephala ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

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 : 21

Tantilla melanocephala ( Linnaeus, 1758)

Type locality. “America.”

Distribution. Widespread from Central America ( Wallach et al., 2014) and the Lesser Antilles (Wilson et al., 2015), to South America in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago ( Plt. 149A ). In Brazil, recorded in Amazonia, Atlantic Forest, Caatinga, Cerrado, Guianan savannas, Araucaria forest, Pantanal, and Pampas Grasslands ( Plt. 149A ), from low to high elevations ( Plt. 149B ). Observed in the field in savanna, grassland ( Valdujo et al.,2009),and forest( Martins and Oliveira,1998).

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Plate 149. Distribution map of Tantilla melanocephala in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.