Lygophis paucidens Hoge, 1953

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Lygophis paucidens Hoge, 1953

Type locality. Village of Mato Verde , near Ilha do Bananal. Currently Luciara, state of Mato Grosso, Brazil .

Distribution. Known from Brazil and Paraguay, at the central portion of the South American open diagonal ( Plt. 395A ). In Brazil, recorded in Cerrado and marginally in Caatinga ( Plt. 395A ), mostly at intermediate to high elevations ( Plt. 395B ). Previous map and taxonomy in Dixon (1989). Observed in the field in savanna or grasslands on sandy soils ( Recoder and Nogueira, 2007; Recoder et al., 2011; Rodrigues and Prudente, 2011).

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Plate 395. Distribution map of Lygophis paucidens in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.