Lygophis meridionalis ( Schenkel, 1901 )

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 meridionalis ( Schenkel, 1901)

Type locality. “Mount Sociedad, Balmacue.” Bernal Cué , Paraguay (fide Cabral Beconi and Cacciali, 2018) .

Distribution. Known from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay, mostly at the South American open diagonal ( Plt. 394A ). In Brazil, widespread in the Cerrado and its contact areas with the Atlantic Forest and Amazonian savannas ( Plt. 394A ), mostly at intermediate elevations ( Plt. 394B ). Previous map and taxonomy in Dixon (1989). Observed in the field in grassland, savanna and wetland ( Strüssmann, 2000; Sawaya et al., 2008; Cacciali and Wüest, 2009; Valdujo et al., 2009; Forlani et al., 2010).

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Plate 394. Distribution map of Lygophis meridionalis in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.