Thamnodynastes rutilus (Prado, 1942)

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 : 42

Thamnodynastes rutilus (Prado, 1942)

Type locality. Gália , state of São Paulo, Brazil .

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil ( Plt. 360A ), known from only from the southern portion of the Cerrado ( Plt. 360A ) at intermediate to high elevations ( Plt. 360B ). Observed in the field in gallery forest and riparian habitats (Silva Jr. and Sites, 1995; Franco and Ferreira, 2003b, FranÇa and Araújo, 2006; FranÇa et al., 2008; Nogueira et al., 2010).

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Plate 360. Distribution map of Thamnodynastes rutilus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.