Trilepida koppesi ( Amaral, 1955 )

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 : 6

Trilepida koppesi ( Amaral, 1955)

Type locality. Terenos , state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil .

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil ( Plt. 22A ), recorded in the southern portion of the Cerrado and its contact with the Atlantic Forest and Pantanal ( Plt. 22A ). Most records at intermediate elevations ( Plt. 22B ). Observed in the field in savannas and grasslands ( FranÇa and Araújo, 2006; Sawaya et al., 2008; Valdujo et al., 2009; Freitas et al., 2012).

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Plate 22. Distribution map of Trilepida koppesi in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.