Lygophis anomalus ( Günther, 1858 )

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 : 46

Lygophis anomalus ( Günther, 1858)

Type locality. Banks of the Paraná River, probably near Santa Fé, Argentina ( Dixon, 1985) .

Distribution. Known from Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil, mostly at the southern portion of the South American open diagonal ( Plt. 390A ). In Brazil, restricted to Pampas Grasslands ( Plt. 390A ) at low elevations ( Plt. 390B ). Previous map and taxonomy in Dixon (1989). Observed in the field in grassland, savanna, and open forest, as well as in disturbed areas ( Arzamendia and Giraudo, 2002; Santos et al., 2005; Kacoliris, 2006).

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Plate 390. Distribution map of Lygophis anomalus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation.Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.