Xenodon rabdocephalus ( Wied, 1824 )

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 rabdocephalus ( Wied, 1824)

Type locality. “ Sertão of Bahia, Brazil.”

Distribution. Known from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, largely associated to South American major forested biomes ( Plt. 404A ). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia, and in central and southern Atlantic Forest, forming a disjunct distribution, with marginal records in the Chiquitano Dry Forest, northwestern Cerrado and its contact areas with the Pantanal ( Plt. 404A ), mostly at low elevations ( Plt. 404B ). Observed in the field in wetlands and gallery forest in ( Martins and Oliveira, 1998; Martins et al., 2008b; Nogueira et al., 2010).

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Plate 404. Distribution map of Xenodon rabdocephalus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.