Phalotris tricolor ( 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 : 33

Phalotris tricolor ( Duméril et al., 1854)

Type locality. Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Santa Cruz, Bolívia .

Distribution. Known from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay, mostly along the Chaco ( Plt. 272A ). In Brazil, known from a restricted area in the Pantanal-Chiquitano Dry Forest contact area, at the Urucum massif, near the Brazil-Bolivia border ( Plt. 272A ), at low to intermediate elevations ( Plt. 272B ). Observed in the field in open areas with dry vegetation, shrubland, and wetland ( Zilio, 2006; Cabral and Cacciali, 2015).

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Plate 272. Distribution map of Phalotris tricolor in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.