Liotyphlops ternetzii ( Boulenger, 1896 )

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 ternetzii ( Boulenger, 1896)

Type locality. Paraguay .

Distribution. Known from Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay at the southern portion of the South American open diagonal ( Plt. 30A ). In Brazil, widespread in the Cerrado, with marginal records in Amazonia, Atlantic Forest, Pampas Grasslands, and Chiquitano Dry Forest ( Plt. 30A ) from low to high elevations ( Plt. 30B ). Previous maps and taxonomy in Dixon and Kofron (1983). Observed in the field in open areas and gallery forest in Cerrado ( Nogueira et al., 2010, 2011).

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Plate 30. Distribution map of Liotyphlops ternetzii in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation.Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.