Gomesophis brasiliensis ( Gomes, 1918 )

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 : 41

Gomesophis brasiliensis ( Gomes, 1918)

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

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil ( Plt. 349A ). Recorded in Araucaria Forest, Atlantic Forest, and adjacent Pampas Grasslands, with isolated records in Cerrado ( Plt. 349A ), often at high elevations ( Plt. 349B ). Found in grasslands and wetlands ( Lema, 2002; FranÇa and Araújo, 2006).

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Plate 349. Distribution map of Gomesophis brasiliensis in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.