Philodryas aestiva ( 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 : 35

Philodryas aestiva ( Duméril et al., 1854)

Type locality. Santa Catarina, Brazil .

Distribution. Known from the southern portion of South America, in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay ( Plt. 295A ). In Brazil, widespread in the southern portion of the Atlantic Forest, Pampas Grasslands, Araucaria Forest, and Cerrado, with marginal isolated records in Pantanal and upland areas in the Caatinga ( Plt. 295A ). Recorded mostly in low areas in the southern part of the range, and in intermediate to high elevation areas near its northern limits ( Plt. 295B ). Observed in the field in grassland and savanna ( Vaz-Silva et al., 2007; Ghizoni-Jr. et al., 2009; Valdujo et al., 2009; Freitas et al., 2012).

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Plate 295. Distribution map of Philodryas aestiva in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.