Amerotyphlops amoipira ( Rodrigues and Juncá, 2002 )

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 : 4

Amerotyphlops amoipira ( Rodrigues and Juncá, 2002)

Type locality. Ibiraba , left margin of the São Francisco, Barra, state of Bahia, Brazil .

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil ( Plt. 1A ). Restricted to the Caatinga and its contact areas with the Cerrado and Atlantic Forest ( Plt. 1A ) at low elevations ( Plt. 1B ). Observed in the field in open xeric scrub on sandy soil, in the Caatinga ( Rodrigues, 1991).

Figures

Plate 1. Distribution map of Amerotyphlops amoipira in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.

Figure 1. (A) Number of records, (B) richness, (C) redundancy,and (D) corrected weighted endemism in each cell of a 1º × 1º grid covering the Brazilian territory.