Ditaxodon taeniatus (Peters, 1868)

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

Ditaxodon taeniatus (Peters in Hensel, 1868)

Type locality. Porto Alegre , Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Possibly in error ( Bérnils et al., 2008) .

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil ( Plt. 294A ). Known from few and scattered records,mostly in Araucaria Forest, and marginally in the Cerrado and Atlantic Forest ( Plt. 294A ), mostly at high elevations ( Plt. 294B ). Observed in the field in montane grassland ( Thomas et al., 2006).

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Plate 294. Distribution map of Ditaxodon taeniatus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.