Chironius flavolineatus ( Jan, 1863 )

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 : 18

Chironius flavolineatus ( Jan, 1863)

Type locality. Brazil, fide Hamdan et al., 2014 .

Distribution. Known from Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay ( Plt. 121A ). In Brazil, widespread in Cerrado, Atlantic Forest, savanna enclaves in Amazonia, Chiquitano Dry Forest, Pantanal, and Caatinga ( Plt. 121A ), mostly from intermediate to high elevations ( Plt. 121B ). Previous maps and taxonomy in Dixon et al. (1993) and Hamdan et al. (2014). Observed in the field in savanna and gallery forest ( FranÇa et al., 2008; Hamdan et al., 2014).

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Plate 121. Distribution map of Chironius flavolineatus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.