Micrurus pyrrhocryptus ( Cope, 1862 )

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 : 16

Micrurus pyrrhocryptus ( Cope, 1862)

Type locality. Río Bermejo , province of Formosa, Argentina .

Distribution. Known from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil,and Paraguay in the southern portion of the South American open diagonal ( Plt. 109A ). Widespread in the Chaco, occurring marginally in extreme western Brazil (Urucum and Amolar ranges) in Chiquitano Dry Forest and contact zones with the Pantanal (Fig. 109A) at low elevations ( Plt. 109B ). Previous maps and taxonomy in Roze (1996), Silva Jr. and Sites (1999), Campbell and Lamar (2004), and Silva Jr. et al. (2016). Observed in the field in Chaco shrubland ( Sousa et al., 2010).

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Plate 109. Distribution map of Micrurus pyrrhocryptus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.