Mussurana quimi ( Franco et al., 1997 )

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 : 38

Mussurana quimi ( Franco et al., 1997)

Type locality. Fazenda Santo Antônio , Itu, state of São Paulo, Brazil .

Distribution. Known from Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay ( Plt. 316A ). In Brazil, recorded in the southern portion of the Cerrado, central portion of the Atlantic Forest and its contact with Araucaria Forest, with isolated records in the Caatinga and Pampas Grassland ( Plt. 316A ), mostly at intermediate to high elevations ( Plt. 316B ). Observed in the field in open areas near gallery forest and wetlands ( Vaz-Silva et al., 2007; Nogueira et al., 2011).

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Plate 316. Distribution map of Mussurana quimi in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.