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Phalotris lemniscatus

Description

Phalotris lemniscatus (Duméril et al., 1854)

Type locality. Restricted to Montevideo, Uruguay (Lema, 1984).

Distribution. Known from southern South America, in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay (Plt. 266A). In Brazil, widespread in Pampas Grasslands and Araucaria Forest, with isolated records in the contact between Atlantic Forest and Cerrado (Plt. 266A), from low to high elevations (Plt. 266B). Observed in the field in open areas of rock outcrop and coastal vegetation (Morais, 2010; Santos et al., 2012).

Notes

Published as part of 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, pp. 1-274 in South American Journal of Herpetology 14 (s 1) on page 32, DOI: 10.2994/SAJH-D-19-00120.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10061686

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  • Dumeril A. M. C., Bibron G., Dumeril A. 1854. Erpetologie Generale ou Histoire Naturelle Complete des Reptiles. Tome Septieme, Duexieme Partie. Librarie Enclyclopedique de Roret, Paris. DOI
  • Lema T. 1984. Sobre o genero Elapomorphus Wiegmann, 1843 (Serpentes, Colubridae, Elapomorphinae). Iheringia 64: 53 - 86.
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  • Santos M. B. D., Oliveira M. C. L. M. D., Tozetti A. M. 2012. Diversity and habitat use by snakes and lizards in coastal environments of southernmost Brazil. Biota Neotropica 12: 78 - 87. DOI