Mussurana bicolor ( Peracca, 1904 )

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 : 37

Mussurana bicolor ( Peracca, 1904)

Type locality. Santa Fé , province of Buenos Aires, Argentina .

Distribution. Known from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay ( Plt. 314A ). In Brazil, recorded in the western portion of the Cerrado, Pantanal, and Chiquitano Dry Forest ( Plt. 314A ) at low elevations ( Plt. 314B ). Previous maps and taxonomy in Zaher (1996). Observed in the field in open savannas, wetlands, and disturbed areas ( Strüssmann and Sazima, 1993; Couturier and Faivovich, 1996).

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Plate 314. Distribution map of Mussurana bicolor in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation.Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.