Palusophis bifossatus ( Raddi, 1820 )

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 : 20

Palusophis bifossatus ( Raddi, 1820)

Type locality. Rio de Janeiro , state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil .

Distribution. Widespread in South America, known from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Paraguay, Suriname, and Venezuela ( Plt. 140A ). In Brazil, widespread in Atlantic Forest and Cerrado, with records also in the Pantanal, Chiquitano Dry Forest, Caatinga, Amazonia, the Guianan savannas, and Pampas Grasslands ( Plt. 140A ) from low to high elevations ( Plt. 140B ). Taxonomy follows Montingelli et al. (2019). Observed in the field in grassland, savanna, forests, and disturbed areas ( Cunha and Nascimento, 1993; Valdujo et al., 2009; Leite et al., 2007).

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Plate 140. Distribution map of Oxybelis aeneus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.