Xenopholis scalaris ( Wucherer, 1861 )

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 : 48

Xenopholis scalaris ( Wucherer, 1861)

Type locality. Not defined. Type series formed by two specimens (no holotype designated), one from Canavieiras , state of Bahia, Brazil , and another from Mata de São João , Bahia, Brazil .

Distribution. Known from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, largely associated to South American major forested biomes ( Plt. 407A ). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia and the Atlantic Forest, forming a disjunct distribution ( Plt. 407A ), mostly at low elevation ( Plt. 407B ). Observed in the field in primary forest ( Martins and Oliveira, 1998).

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Plate 407. Distribution map of Xenopholis scalaris in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.