Apostolepis polylepis ( Amaral, 1922 )

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 : 31

Apostolepis polylepis ( Amaral, 1922)

Type locality. Village of Engenheiro Dodt , currently Santa Filomena, state of Piauí, Brazil .

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil ( Plt. 251A ), restricted to the northeastern portion of the Cerrado ( Plt. 251A ) at low to intermediate elevations ( Plt. 251B ). Observed in the field in open savanna and grassland on sandy soils ( Nogueira et al., 2011; Recoder et al., 2011).

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Plate 251. Distribution map of Apostolepis polylepis in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.