Published as part of 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, pp. 1-274 in South American Journal of Herpetology 14 (s 1) on page 6, DOI: 10.2994/SAJH-D-19-00120.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10061686

Trilepida brasiliensis (Laurent, 1949) Type locality. Barreiras, state of Bahia, Brazil. Distribution. Endemic to Brazil (Plt. 18A). Widespread in the Cerrado and its contact with the Caatinga and Pantanal (Plt. 18A), mostly at intermediate to high elevations (Plt. 18B). Observed in the field in savannas and open areas (Borges-Nojosa et al., 2009; Dal Vechio et al., 2013).