Helicops infrataeniatus Jan, 1865

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 : 34

Helicops infrataeniatus Jan, 1865

Type locality. Suriname (in error) .

Distribution. Known from Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and Paraguay ( Plt. 282A ). In Brazil, recorded in southern portion of the Atlantic Forest, Araucaria Forest, and Pampas Grasslands, with marginal records in the Cerrado ( Plt. 282A ), mostly at low elevations ( Plt. 282B ). Observed in the field in lentic and lotic waters in open areas ( Lema, 1994).

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Plate 282. Distribution map of Helicops infrataeniatus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.