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  Journal of Species Lists and Distribution ISSN 1809-127X (online edition) www.checklist.org.br © 2009 Check List and Authors   NOTES ON GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION   Check List, Campinas, 5(4): 773–775, December, 2009.  773Reptilia, Squamata, Serpentes, Dipsadidae, Sibynomorphus lavillai Scrocchi, Porto and Rey 1993: New country record and geographic distribution map   Vanda Lúcia Ferreira 1 * and Robson W. Ávila 2  1 Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Departamento de Biologia, Laboratório de Ecologia. Caixa Postal 549. CEP 79070-900. Campo Grande, MS, Brazil.   2 Universidade Estadual Paulista, Instituto de Biociências, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Geral e Aplicada, Departamento de Parasitologia. Distrito de Rubião Jr., s/nº. CEP 18618-000. Botucatu, SP, Brazil.  * Corresponding author. E-mail: vandalferreira@gmail.com  Dipsadid snakes of the genus Sibynomorphus  are restricted to the South America and 12   species are currently recognized (Cadle 2007). Sibynomorphus has a peculiar distribution, with six species distributed along the Andean and   inter-Andean valleys of Peru and Ecuador and   the other species found south of the Amazon   in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia and Brazil (Cadle 2007). In Brazil, four species have been formally reported: S. mikanii,  S. neuwiedi,  S. turgidus and S. ventrimaculatus (Peters 1960, Peters and Orejas-Miranda 1986, Vanzolini 1986). In despite S. lavillai have been cited in Bérnils (2009), there is no vouchered publication with precise localities of the presence of S. lavillai   in Brazil.  Herein we report the presence of S. lavillai (Figure 1) and provide a geographic distribution map. Specimens were collected during fieldwork on Urucum Massif (19°24'14.9" S, 57°22'14.7" W), municipality of Corumbá, west of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, between December 2000 and August 2002.   Figure 1. Adult female Sibynomorphus lavillai collected at the Urucum massif, state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.Notes on Geographic Distribution  Check List, Campinas, 5(4): 773–775, December, 2009.  774Eleven specimens were caught in pitfall traps with drift fences, in altitudes of 200, 500 and 800 m, in a semideciduous forest. Voucher specimens are deposited in the Coleção Zoológica de Referência, Laboratório de Zoologia, Campus de Corumbá, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS), under the acronym and numbers CEUCH 807, 842, 872, 1008, 1020, 1171, 1437, 1676, 1840, 1948, 3551.  The specimens matched with the description given by Scrocchi et al. (1993), with 15-15-15 dorsals, immaculate ventral pattern, vertebral scale row moderately enlarged and presence of blotches that reach the first row of scales.   Previously reported for Argentina (Scrocchi   et al. 1993; Lions and Alvarez 1996; Kacoliris   et al. 2006), Paraguay (Scrocchi et al. 1993; Cacciali 2006) and Bolivia (Montero et al. 1995; Leynaud and Bucher 1999), the records   reported here enlarge the geographical distribution of  S. lavillai in ca. 510 km to the east   from  Província Andres Ibañes,  Departamento Santa Cruz, Bolivia (Montero et al. 1995)   (Figure 2).  Figure 2.  Geographic distribution of Sibynomorphus lavillai in South America based in Cacciali (2006), Kacoliris et al. (2006), Lions and Alvarez (1996), Leynaud and Bucher (1999), Montero et al. (1995), Scrocchi et al. (1993), and the present study.   ————————————————  Acknowledgements: We would like to thank the FUNDECT and CNPq for their financial support and Mineração Corumbaense Reunidas S.A. for logistical support. Notes on Geographic Distribution  Check List, Campinas, 5(4): 773–775, December, 2009.  775Literature Cited Bérnils, R.S. (org.). 2009. Brazilian reptiles – List of species. Electronic Database accessible at http://www.sbherpetologia.org.br/. Sociedade Brasileira de Herpetologia. Captured on 30 September 2009. Cacciali, P. 2006. Las serpientes caracoleras (Colubridae: Dipsadinae) de Paraguay. Revista Española de Herpetologia 20: 71-85. Cadle, J.E. 2007. The snake genus Sibynomorphus (Colubridae: Dipsadinae: Dipsadini) in Peru and Ecuador, with comments on the systematics of Dipsadini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 158 (5): 183-284. Kacoliris, F.P., I. Berkunsky and J. Williams. 2006. Herpetofauna of the Argentinean impenetrable Great Chaco. 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