Bothrops moojeni Hoge, 1966

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 : 12

Bothrops moojeni Hoge, 1966

Type locality. Brasília , Distrito Federal, Brazil .

Distribution. Recorded in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay, at the center of the South American open diagonal ( Plt. 70A ). In Brazil, widespread in the Cerrado and Pantanal,with marginal records in neighboring ecoregions ( Plt. 70A ), from low to high elevations ( Plt. 70B ). Previous maps and taxonomy in Campbell and Lamar (2004). Observed in the field in gallery forest, palm marshes, and wet grasslands ( Nogueira et al., 2003).

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Plate 70. Distribution map of Bothrops moojeni in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.