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Southern Striped Snake
Lygophis meridionalis (Schenkel, 1901)
Also calledCobra-Corredeira (por) · Cobra-Corredeira-Listrada (por) · Corredeira-Listrada (por)
First described in: Schenkel, E. Achter Nachtrag zum Katalog der herpetologischen Sammlung des Basler Museums.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution. Known from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay, mostly at the South American open diagonal (Plt. 394 A). In Brazil, widespread in the Cerrado and its contact areas with the Atlantic Forest and Amazonian savannas (Plt. 394 A), mostly at intermediate elevations (Plt. 394 B). Previous map and taxonomy in Dixon (1989). Observed in the field in grassland, savanna and wetland (Strüssmann, 2000; Sawaya et al., 2008; Cacciali and Wüest, 2009; Valdujo et al., 2009; Forlani et al., 2010).
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
materials_examined
Type locality. “ Mount Sociedad, Balmacue. ” Bernal Cué, Paraguay (fide Cabral Beconi and Cacciali, 2018).
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 7649402.