Trilepida brasiliensis ( Laurent, 1949 )

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 brasiliensis ( Laurent, 1949)

Type locality. Barreiras , state of Bahia, Brazil .

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil ( Plt. 18A ). Widespread in the Cerrado and its contact with the Caatinga and Pantanal ( Plt. 18A ), mostly at intermediate to high elevations ( Plt. 18B ). Observed in the field in savannas and open areas ( Borges-Nojosa et al., 2009; Dal Vechio et al., 2013).

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Plate 18. Distribution map of Trilepida 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.