Apostolepis flavotorquata ( 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 : 30

Apostolepis flavotorquata ( Duméril et al., 1854)

Type locality. “L’íntérieur de l’Amérique meridional,” restricted to Goiás state, Brazil ( Lema and Renner, 2005) .

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil ( Plt. 239A ), widespread in the Cerrado and its contact with Amazonia ( Plt. 239A ), from intermediate to high elevations ( Plt. 239B ). Observed in the field in dry forest ( FranÇa and Araújo, 2006).

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Plate 239. Distribution map of Apostolepis flavotorquata in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.