Epicrates assisi Machado, 1945

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 : 9

Epicrates assisi Machado, 1945

Type locality. Campina Grande , state of Paraíba, Brazil .

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil ( Plt. 43A ). Widespread in the Caatinga, with marginal records in the northeastern portion of the Cerrado and the northeastern Atlantic Forest ( Plt. 43A ) at low to high elevations ( Plt. 43B ). Previous maps and taxonomy in Passos and Fernandes (2008). Observed in the field in open areas and forest ( Passos and Fernandes, 2008; Loebmann and Haddad, 2010; Freitas et al., 2012).

Figures

Plate 43. Distribution map of Epicrates assisi in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation.Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.