Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
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Nogueira, Cristiano C.
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Argôlo, Antonio J. S.
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Arzamendia, Vanesa
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Azevedo, Josué A.
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Barbo, Fausto E.
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Bérnils, Renato S.
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Bolochio, Bruna E.
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Borges-Martins, Marcio
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Brasil-Godinho, Marcela
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Braz, Henrique
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Buononato, Marcus A.
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Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F.
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Colli, Guarino R.
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Costa, Henrique C.
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Franco, Francisco L.
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Giraudo, Alejandro
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Gonzalez, Rodrigo C.
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Guedes, Thaís
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Hoogmoed, Marinus S.
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Marques, Otavio A. V.
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Montingelli, Giovanna G.
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Passos, Paulo
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Prudente, Ana L. C.
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Rivas, Gilson A.
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Sanchez, Paola M.
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Serrano, Filipe C.
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Silva Jr., Nelson J.
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Strüssmann, Christine
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Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S.
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Zaher, Hussam
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Sawaya, Ricardo J.
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Martins, Marcio
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South American Journal of Herpetology
2019
2019-12-31
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s 1
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journal article
274286
10.2994/SAJH-D-19-00120.1
eea20b08-e6c1-4189-bb35-74350dbc6651
1982-355X
10061686
Xenodon rabdocephalus
(
Wied, 1824
)
Type
locality.
“
Sertão
of
Bahia
,
Brazil
.”
Distribution.
Known from
Bolivia
,
Brazil
,
Colombia
,
Ecuador
, French Guiana,
Guyana
,
Peru
,
Suriname
, and
Venezuela
, largely associated to South American major forested biomes (
Plt. 404A
). In
Brazil
, widespread in Amazonia, and in central and southern Atlantic Forest, forming a disjunct distribution, with marginal records in the Chiquitano Dry Forest, northwestern Cerrado and its contact areas with the Pantanal (
Plt. 404A
), mostly at low elevations (
Plt. 404B
). Observed in the field in wetlands and gallery forest in (
Martins and Oliveira, 1998
;
Martins et al., 2008b
;
Nogueira et al., 2010
).