Erythrolamprus mossoroensis (Hoge & Lima-Verde, 1973)

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 : 44

Erythrolamprus mossoroensis

( Hoge and Lima-Verde, 1973)

Type locality. Mossoró , state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil .

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil ( Plt. 379A ). Widespread in the Caatinga, with marginal records in the Cerrado and Atlantic Forest south of the Amazon ( Plt. 379A ), at low to intermediate elevations ( Plt. 379B ). Previous map and taxonomy in Dixon (1989). Observed in the field in open, xeric vegetation, including herbaceous, arboreal, and bushy caatinga ( Vanzolini et al., 1980; Dixon, 1989; Guedes et al., 2014).

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Plate 379. Distribution map of Erythrolamprus mossoroensis in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.