Atractus stygius Passos et al., 2019

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 : 24

Atractus stygius Passos et al., 2019

Type locality. Bocaiúva hydroelectric power plant, Rio Cravari (not “Craveri”), Brasnorte, state of Mato Grosso, Brazil .

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil ( Plt. 182A ), recorded in western Cerrado and its contact with Amazonia and Chiquitano Dry Forest ( Plt. 182A ) at low to intermediate elevations of the Pareci Plateau ( Plt. 182B ). No detailed field data on habitat use are available for this species.

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Plate 182. Distribution map of Atractus stygius in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.