Rodriguesophis iglesiasi ( Gomes, 1915 )

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 : 40

Rodriguesophis iglesiasi ( Gomes, 1915)

Type locality. RegeneraÇão , State of Piauí, Brazil .

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil ( Plt. 336A ). Restricted to the northeastern portion of the Cerrado and western portion of the Caatinga ( Plt. 336A ) at intermediate to high elevations ( Plt. 336B ). Observed in the field in savanna and grassland on sandy soil ( Recoder and Nogueira, 2007, Recoder et al., 2011).

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Plate 336. Distribution map of Rodriguesophis iglesiasi in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.