Amnesteophis melanauchen ( Jan, 1863 )

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

Amnesteophis melanauchen ( Jan, 1863)

Type locality. “ Bahia.” Known only from the type specimen deposited at the Leiden Museum. According to Myers (2011), the original catalog entry for the holotype is “ Bahia au Brésil,” which could refer to the city of Salvador, to its surrounding districts, or to the old administrative province that gave name to the present state of Bahia in Brazil. Therefore, the precise locality where the only known specimen was collected cannot be defined with certainty .

Distribution. Unknown. Given the uncertainties on the type locality, no map was provided for this enigmatic species, possibly occurring in the state of Bahia, northeastern Brazil. We follow Myers (2011) in tentatively assigning Amnesteophis to the Xenodontinae. However, this is based merely on geographic grounds rather than morphological or molecular affinities ( Myers, 2011). No detailed field data on habitat use are available for this species.