Phalotris lemniscatus ( 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 : 32

Phalotris lemniscatus ( Duméril et al., 1854)

Type locality. Restricted to Montevideo, Uruguay ( Lema, 1984) .

Distribution. Known from southern South America, in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay ( Plt. 266A ). In Brazil, widespread in Pampas Grasslands and Araucaria Forest, with isolated records in the contact between Atlantic Forest and Cerrado ( Plt. 266A ), from low to high elevations ( Plt. 266B ). Observed in the field in open areas of rock outcrop and coastal vegetation ( Morais, 2010; Santos et al., 2012).

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Plate 266. Distribution map of Phalotris lemniscatus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.