Micrurus ibiboboca ( Merrem, 1820 )

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 : 15

Micrurus ibiboboca ( Merrem, 1820)

Type locality. Mouth of Rio Belmonte , state of Bahia, Brazil .

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil ( Plt. 97A ). Recorded in the northern portion of the Atlantic Forest and widespread in the Caatinga, with marginal records in Amazonia and Cerrado ( Plt. 97A ), mostly at low elevations ( Plt. 97B ). Previous maps and taxonomy in Roze (1996), Campbell and Lamar (2004), and Silva Jr. et al. (2016). Observed in the field in forest and savanna ( Cunha et al., 1985; Cunha and Nascimento, 1993; Roze, 1996; Campbell and Lamar, 2004; Ghizoni-Jr. et al., 2009; Marques et al., 2011; Rodrigues and Prudente, 2011; Silva Jr. et al., 2016).

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Plate 97. Distribution map of Micrurus ibiboboca in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.