Philodryas psammophidea ( Günther, 1872 )

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 : 36

Philodryas psammophidea ( Günther, 1872)

Type locality. Province of Tucumán, Argentina .

Distribution. Known from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay, mostly along the Chaco region ( Plt. 306A ). In Brazil, recorded in the western portion of the Cerrado ( Plt. 306A ), mostly from intermediate elevations ( Plt. 306B ). Observed in the field in grassland and open savanna on sandy soils (CS and GRC, pers. obs.).

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Plate 306. Distribution map of Philodryas psammophidea in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.