Amerotyphlops brongersmianus ( Vanzolini, 1976 )

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 : 5

Amerotyphlops brongersmianus ( Vanzolini, 1976)

Type locality. Barra de Itaípe , Ilhéus, state of Bahia, Brazil .

Distribution. Widespread in South America, known from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela ( Plt. 3A ). In Brazil, recorded in all ecoregions except Araucaria Forest and Pampas Grasslands ( Plt. 3A ), mostly at low elevations ( Plt. 3B ). Observed in the field in forest ( Martins and Oliveira, 1998), including semideciduous ( Ávila et al., 2006) and gallery forest ( Nogueira et al., 2011).

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Plate 3. Distribution map of Amerotyphlops brongersmianus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.