Apostolepis goiasensis Prado, 1943

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 : 30

Apostolepis goiasensis Prado, 1943

Type locality. Rio Verde , state of Goiás, Brazil .

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil ( Plt. 241A ). Restricted to the Cerrado ( Plt. 241A ), mostly at high elevations (Fig. 241B). Observed in the field in savanna on sandy soils ( Dalmolin, 2000).

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Plate 241. Distribution map of Apostolepis goiasensis in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.