Chironius bicarinatus ( Wied, 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 : 17

Chironius bicarinatus ( Wied, 1820)

Type locality. Lake near Rio Jucu, Vila Velha, state of Espírito Santo, Brazil .

Distribution. Known from Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay ( Plt. 116A ). In Brazil, widespread in Atlantic Forest, with marginal records in the Pampas Grassland and isolated records in Cerrado and Caatinga ( Plt. 116A ), at low to high elevations ( Plt. 116B ). Doubtful records in Bolivia ( Embert, 2008) not mapped. Previous maps and taxonomy in Dixon et al. (1993). Observed in the field in forest ( Dixon et al., 1993; Silva Jr. and Sites, 1995; Argôlo, 2004; Loebmann and Haddad, 2010).

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Plate 116. Distribution map of Chironius bicarinatus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.