Bothrops pubescens ( Cope, 1870 )

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 pubescens ( Cope, 1870)

Type locality. Pozo Hondo , Tambores, Tacuarembó, Uruguay .

Distribution. Known from Brazil and Uruguay, at the southern portion of the South American open diagonal ( Plt. 76A ). Recorded in Atlantic Forest and Pampas Grasslands( Plt. 76A ) at low elevations ( Plt. 76B ). Previous maps and taxonomy in Silva and Rodrigues (2008). Observed in the field in forest, grassland,restinga,and disturbed areas ( Martins et al., 2002; Hartmann et al., 2005; Ghizoni-Jr. et al., 2009; Souza-Filho and Verrastro, 2012).

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Plate 76. Distribution map of Bothrops pubescens in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.