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 39, DOI: 10.2994/SAJH-D-19-00120.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10061686

Paraphimophis rusticus (Cope, 1878) Type locality. Argentina. Distribution. Known from Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay (Plt. 325A). In Brazil, widespread in Araucaria Forest and Pampas Grasslands, with marginal records in the Cerrado and Atlantic Forest (Plt. 325A), mostly at intermediate to high elevations (Plt. 325B). Observed in the field in grasslands and open areas (Giraudo, 2001; Scott et al., 2006).