Lygophis flavifrenatus Cope, 1862

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Lygophis flavifrenatus Cope, 1862

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

Distribution. Known from Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, mostly at the southern portion of the South American open diagonal ( Plt. 392A ). In Brazil, recorded in southern Atlantic Forest, Pampas Grasslands, and from one record in contact zones between Cerrado and Pantanal ( Plt. 392A ), at low to intermediate elevations ( Plt. 392B ). Previous map and taxonomy in Dixon (1989). Observed in the field in open areas, forest, and grassland ( Cacciali et al., 2016).

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Plate 392. Distribution map of Lygophis flavifrenatus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.