Psomophis joberti ( Boettger, 1885 )

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

Psomophis joberti ( Boettger, 1885)

Type locality. Ilha do Marajó, state of Pará, Brazil.

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil ( Plt. 345A ). Recorded in the central and northeastern portion of the Cerrado, and in the Caatinga, with marginal records in Amazonia and Atlantic Forest ( Plt. 345A ), at low to intermediate elevations ( Plt. 345B ). Observed in the field in savanna and grassland on sandy soil ( Nogueira et al., 2011; CCN, pers. obs.).

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Plate 345. Distribution map of Psomophis joberti in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation.Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.