Taeniophallus poecilopogon ( Cope, 1863 )

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 poecilopogon ( Cope, 1863)

Type locality. Paysandu, Uruguay .

Distribution. Known from southern South America in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay ( Plt. 225A ). In Brazil, widespread in Pampas Grasslands, with marginal records in Atlantic Forest and Araucaria Forest ( Plt. 225A ), mostly at low elevations ( Plt. 225B ). Observed in the field in grassland and disturbed areas ( Etchepare and Zaracho, 2009; Nenda and DiPietro, 2009).

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Plate 225. Distribution map of Taeniophallus poecilopogon in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.