Erythrolamprus miliaris ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

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 : 44

Erythrolamprus miliaris ( Linnaeus, 1758)

Type locality. “Indiis” (in error).

Distribution. Known from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Suriname, and Venezuela, mainly along open biomes ( Plt. 378A ). In Brazil, widespread in the Atlantic Forest, with scattered records in all ecoregions, except Pampas Grasslands ( Plt. 378A ), from low to high elevations ( Plt. 378B ). Previous map and taxonomy in Dixon (1989). Observed in the field in open and disturbed areas ( Martins and Oliveira, 1998; Santos-Jr. and Frota, 2002; Rodrigues, 2003; Oliveira and Silva, 2007; Martins et al., 2008b; São-Pedro and Pires, 2009; Araujo et al., 2010).

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Plate 378. Distribution map of Erythrolamprus miliaris in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.