Xenodon histricus ( Jan, 1863 )

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 : 47

Xenodon histricus ( Jan, 1863)

Type locality. South America fide Jan and Sordelli (1865) .

Distribution. Known from Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, mostly along open biomes ( Plt. 398A ). In Brazil, widespread in the Pampas Grassland, with marginal records in the Araucaria Forest, Atlantic Forest, and Cerrado ( Plt. 398A ), at low to high elevations ( Plt. 398B ). Previous map and taxonomy in Hoge et al. (1975). Observed in the field in grassland and savanna ( Di-Bernardo et al., 2003).

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Plate 398. Distribution map of Xenodon histricus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation.Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.