Siphlophis pulcher ( Raddi, 1820 )

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

Siphlophis pulcher ( Raddi, 1820)

Type locality. Rio de Janeiro , state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil .

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil ( Plt. 342A ). Recorded in the southern Atlantic Forest, with a disjunct population in Bahia ( Plt. 342A ), mostly at low elevations ( Plt. 342B ). Observed in the field in forest and disturbed areas ( Sazima and Argôlo, 1994; Argôlo, 2004; Hartmann, 2005; Duarte and Sena, 2007).

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Plate 342. Distribution map of Siphlophis pulcher in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation.Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.