Philodryas mattogrossensis Koslowsky, 1898

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 : 36

Philodryas mattogrossensis Koslowsky, 1898

Type locality. Miranda , state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil .

Distribution. Known from Brazil and Paraguay ( Plt. 302A ). Restricted to the southwestern portion of Cerrado and its contact with the Pantanal and Chaco ( Plt. 302A ) at low to intermediate elevations ( Plt. 302B ). Map and taxonomy in Cacciali et al. (2016). Observed in the field in savanna and semideciduous forest (CCN, pers. obs.).

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Plate 302. Distribution map of Philodryas mattogrossensis in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.