Tomodon dorsatus Duméril et al., 1854

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 : 42

Tomodon dorsatus Duméril et al., 1854

Type locality. America , probably Brazil .

Distribution. Known from Argentina and Brazil ( Plt. 363A ). In Brazil, widespread in the Pampas Grasslands, southeastern Atlantic Forest and Araucaria Forest ( Plt. 363A ), mostly at intermediate to high elevations ( Plt. 363B ). Observed in the field in open areas and forests ( Martins et al., 2008b; Bérnils, 2009; Araújo et al., 2010; Forlani et al., 2010).

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Plate 363. Distribution map of Tomodon dorsatus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.