Rodriguesophis chui ( Rodrigues, 1993 )

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 chui ( Rodrigues, 1993)

Type locality. Santo Inácio , right margin of the São Francisco River, Gentio do Ouro, state of Bahia, Brazil .

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil ( Plt. 335A ). Known only from two records in the Caatinga ( Plt. 335A ) at low elevations along the São Francisco River depression ( Plt. 335B ). Observed in the field in grassland and shrubland on sandy soil ( Rodrigues, 1993; Guedes et al., 2014).

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Plate 335. Distribution map of Rodriguesophis chui in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.