Xenodon dorbignyi (Bibron, 1854)

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

Xenodon dorbignyi (Bibron in Duméril et al., 1854)

Type locality. “ South America. ” Type series collected in Buenos Aires, Argentina ; Montevideo, Uruguay and Santa Catarina, Brazil .

Distribution. Known from Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, mostly along open biomes ( Plt. 396A ). In Brazil, widespread in Pampas Grasslands ( Plt. 396A ), at low elevations ( Plt. 396B ). Taxonomy in Hoge et al. (1975). Observed in the field in grassland ( Lema et al., 1983; Oliveira et al., 2001; Winck et al., 2007; Ghizoni-Jr. et al., 2009; Tozetti et al., 2009; Quintela et al., 2011b).

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Plate 396. Distribution map of Xenodon dorbignyi in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.