Erythrolamprus viridis ( Günther, 1862 )

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 : 46

Erythrolamprus viridis ( Günther, 1862)

Type locality. State of Pernambuco, Brazil .

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil ( Plt. 389A ), recorded in the Caatinga and its contact areas with the Cerrado and Atlantic Forest ( Plt. 389A ), mostly at low to intermediate elevations ( Plt. 389B ). Previous map and taxonomy in Dixon (1985, 1989). Observed in the field in dry forest, xeric scrub, and rock outcrops in the Caatinga ( Guedes et al., 2014).

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Plate 389. Distribution map of Erythrolamprus viridis in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.