Dipsas mikanii Schlegel, 1837

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 : 25

Dipsas mikanii Schlegel, 1837

Type locality. Brazil. Restricted to southeastern Brazil by Peters (1960) .

Distribution. Known from Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil, mostly at the central portion of the South American open diagonal ( Plt. 199A ). In Brazil, widespread in the Cerrado and its contacts with the Atlantic Forest, with marginal records in Chiquitano Dry Forest, Pantanal, Araucaria Forest and Pampas Grasslands, and isolated records in the Caatinga ( Plt. 199A ), mostly at intermediate to high elevations ( Plt. 199B ). Observed in the field in open grasslands and savannas ( Valdujo et al., 2009) and disturbed areas ( Sousa et al., 2010), being abundant in urban areas of southeastern Brazil ( Marques et al., 2009; Barbo et al., 2011).

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Plate 199. Distribution map of Dipsas mikanii in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.