Taeniophallus affinis ( Günther, 1858 )

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 : 28

Taeniophallus affinis ( Günther, 1858)

Type locality. State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by lectotype designation ( Myers, 1974) .

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil ( Plt. 219A ). Widespread in the Atlantic Forest and Araucaria Forest, with marginal records in the Cerrado and the Caatinga ( Plt. 219A ), mostly at high elevation ( Plt. 219B ). Observed in the field in forest, secondary forest, and urban areas ( Hartmann et al., 2009; Zacariotti and Gomes, 2010; Trevine, 2011; FranÇa et al., 2012).

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Plate 219. Distribution map of Taeniophallus affinis in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.