Liotyphlops wilderi ( Garman, 1883 )

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 : 7

Liotyphlops wilderi ( Garman, 1883)

Type locality. São Cyriaco , near the village of Santo Antônio do Rio do Peixe. Currently Alvorada de Minas, Minas Gerais, Brazil .

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil ( Plt. 32A ), recorded from the Atlantic Forest and its contact with the Cerrado ( Plt. 32A ) at intermediate to high elevations ( Plt. 32B ). Previous maps and taxonomy in Dixon and Kofron (1983). No detailed field data available for this species.

Figures

Plate 32. Distribution map of Liotyphlops wilderi in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.