Micrurus frontalis ( 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 : 14

Micrurus frontalis ( Duméril et al., 1854)

Type locality. Lagoa Santa, Minas Gerais, Brazil (Silva Jr. and Sites, 1999) .

Distribution. Known from Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay, in the southern portion of the South American open diagonal ( Plt. 95A ). In Brazil, recorded in the Cerrado and the Atlantic Forest ( Plt. 95A ), mostly at intermediate to high elevations ( Plt. 95B ). Previous maps and taxonomy in Roze (1996), Silva Jr. and Sites (1999), Campbell and Lamar (2004), and Silva Jr. et al. (2016). Observed in the field in grassland, savanna, and forest ( Sazima and Abe, 1991; Roze, 1996; Campbell and Lamar, 2004; Bérnils, 2009, Valdujo et al., 2009; Silva Jr. et al., 2016).

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Plate 95. Distribution map of Micrurus frontalis in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.