Erythrolamprus carajasensis (Da Cunha, Nascimento & Avila-Pires, 1985)

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 : 43

Erythrolamprus carajasensis ( Cunha et al., 1985)

Type locality. N1 mining field, Serra Norte , Serra dos Carajás, Parauapebas , state of Pará, Brazil .

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil ( Plt. 371A ). Restricted to the southern portion of Amazonia, in open savanna enclaves close to its contact with the Cerrado ( Plt. 371A ) at low to intermediate elevations ( Plt. 371B ). Observed in the field in savanna and grassland on lateritic soils (“cangas”; Cunha et al., 1985; Dixon, 1989).

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Plate 371. Distribution map of Erythrolamprus carajasensis in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.