Oxyrhopus rhombifer Duméril et al., 1854

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

Oxyrhopus rhombifer Duméril et al., 1854

Type locality. Province of Corrientes, Argentina .

Distribution. Known from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay ( Plt. 322A ). In Brazil, widespread in Pampas Grassland, Cerrado, central and southern Atlantic Forest, and Araucaria Forest, with marginal records in Chiquitano Dry Forest,Pantanal,Caatinga,and Amazonian savannas ( Plt. 322A ) at low to high elevations ( Plt. 322B ). Observed in the field in grassland, savanna and disturbed areas ( Cunha and Nascimento, 1993; Lema, 1994; Giraudo and Scrocchi, 2002; FranÇa and Araújo, 2006; FranÇa et al., 2006; Sawaya et al., 2008; Forlani et al., 2010),

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Plate 322. Distribution map of Oxyrhopus rhombifer in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.