Epictia munoai ( Orejas-Miranda, 1961 )

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 : 6

Epictia munoai ( Orejas-Miranda, 1961)

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

Distribution. Known from Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay,at the southern portion of the South American open diagonal ( Plt. 12A ). In Brazil, widespread in the Pampas Grasslands, with marginal records in Araucaria Forest and Atlantic Forest ( Plt. 12A ), mostly at low elevations ( Plt. 12B ). Observed in the field in grassland, rock outcrops, and temporarily flooded areas ( Giraudo, 1999; Ghizoni-Jr. et al., 2009).

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Plate 12. Distribution map of Epictia munoai in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.