Journal of species lists and distribution Chec List 966 N OTES ON G EOGRAPHIC D ISTRIBUTION Check List 8(5): 966–967, 2012 © 2012 Check List and Authors ISSN 1809-127X (available at www.checklist.org.br) The genus Phimophis Cope, 1860 comprises three species of nocturnal, terrestrial and subterranean dipsadid snakes distributed from Panama to Argentina, through Colombia, the Guiana Region and Brazil (Peters and Orejas-Miranda 1970, Tipton 2005; Grazziotin et al. 2012). In Brazil there are two species: P. guerini and P. guianensis. Both species are restricted to open formations such as Cerrado, Cerrado enclaves in the Amazon region and Caatinga. Here we report the second record of P. guerini for the region of Coastal Atlantic Forest (Freitas 2003; Lisboa et al. 2011). During a herpetological inventory from June 2007 to February 2008 at Mata do Açude do Cafundó (07°10’51” S, 35°05’37”’ W, 91 m), a fragment of Atlantic Forest in the municipality of Cruz do Espirito Santo, Paraíba state, we collected an individual of Phimophis guerini. The specimen (Figure 1), a young female, was captured during the night, on the forest floor, and measures 360 mm total length and 60 mm tail length. It has the following scutellation: one loreal, one preocular, two postoculars, eight supralabials (fourth and fifth in contact with the orbit), nine infralabials, 2+3 temporals, 19-19-17 dorsal scale rows, 204 ventrals and 68 single subcaudals. The specimen was collected under permit number 133/06 – IBAMA/RAN issued by IBAMA. The specimen is housed at the Coleção Herpetologica do Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia da Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB 4796) One other specimen was found dead on road BR 101 in the municipality of Rio Tinto in June 2009 (07°04’42” S, 34°59’13” W, 88 m). This specimen is housed at Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz (MZUESC 8169). In Brazil Phimophis guerini is distributed in south Piauí, Amazonas, Mato Grosso, south São Paulo and Goiás states (Peters and Orejas-Miranda 1970). There are others records in Distrito Federal (França et al. 2008) and Cerrado enclaves in the Amazon region (França at al. 2006). Sawaya et al. (2008) reports this snake in the Abstract: We provide a new record of Phimophis guerini from the Atlantic Forest in Paraiba state and a review of the distribution of the species. 1 Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza, Programa de Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia. CEP 58059-900. João Pessoa, PB, Brazil. 2 Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, Departamento de Biologia. Av. das Baraúnas, 351 Bodocongó. CEP 58109-753. Campina Grande, PB, Brazil. 3 Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio). REBIO Gurupi. BR 222, KM 12, S/N, Pequiá. CEP 65930-000. Açailândia, MA, Brazil. * Corresponding author. E-mail: philodryas@hotmail.com Gentil Alves Pereira Filho 1 , Gindomar Gomes Santana 1 , Washington Luiz da Silva Vieira 1 , Rômulo Romeu da Nóbrega Alves 2 , Paulo Fernando Guedes Pereira Montenegro 1 and Marco Antônio de Freitas 3* Phimophis guerini (Duméril, Bibron and Dumeril, 1854) (Serpentes: Dipsadidae): Distribution extension in Paraiba, Brazil municipality of Itirapina, São Paulo state. It also occurs in the Atlantic forest of Alagoas (Lisboa et al. 2011), Minas Gerais (Recorder and Nogueira 2007), Tocantins (Vitt et al. 2005), and Paraná (Bérnils and Moura-Leite 2010). In Bahia state, there are records in Chapada Diamantina (Caatinga domain) (Juncá 2005), and in the municipalities of Mata de São João, Santa Terezinha and Elíseo Medrado (Freitas 2003). In Argentina, P. guerini occurs in the provinces of Misiones, Corrientes, Entre Rios, Santa Fe, Chaco, Tucumán and southwestern Cordoba (Peters and Orejas-Miranda 1970; Tipton 2005). The specimens in this study extend the distribution 360 km northeast of the nearest location in Alagoas (Lisboa et al. 2011). All the records mentioned here show that P. guerini inhabits primarily open formations but is also found in some regions of Atlantic Forest. Due to its scarcity in herpetological collections (Rodrigues 1993) the distribution of this snake is not completely known. Figure 1. Phimophis guerini UFPB 4796 collected in Cruz do Espirito Santo, Paraiba, Brazil