Micrurus brasiliensis Roze, 1967

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 : 14

Micrurus brasiliensis Roze, 1967

Type locality. Barreiras , state of Bahia, Brazil .

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil ( Plt. 89A ). Recorded in the northeastern portion of the Cerrado, close to its contact with the Caatinga ( Plt. 89A ), mostly at low to intermediate elevations ( Plt. 89B ). A record for “Santa Cruz,” Bahia was previously attributed to Santa Cruz da Cabrália (Silva Jr. and Sites,1999),in error (see Silva Jr., 2007),and is here corrected to a locality in interior Bahia on the basis of the original toponym. Previous maps and taxonomy in Roze (1996), Silva Jr. and Sites (1999), Campbell and Lamar (2004), and Silva Jr. et al. (2016). Observed in the field in savanna (Silva Jr. and Sites, 1999; Campbell and Lamar, 2004; Recoder et al., 2011; Silva Jr. et al., 2016).

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Plate 89. Distribution map of Micrurus brasiliensis in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation.Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.