Erythrolamprus typhlus ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

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, South American Journal of Herpetology 14 (s 1), pp. 1-274 : 45

Erythrolamprus typhlus ( Linnaeus, 1758)

Type locality. “Asia” (in error).

Distribution. Known from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, mainly at forested biomes ( Plt. 388A ). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia and the southern portion of the Atlantic Forest, with scattered records in the Cerrado, Pantanal and Chiquitano Dry Forest ( Plt. 388A ), mostly at low elevations ( Plt. 388B ). Previous map and taxonomy in Dixon (1989). Observed in the field in forest, dry forest, and disturbed areas ( Cunha and Nascimento, 1993; Martins and Oliveira, 1998; Marques et al., 2001).

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Plate 388. Distribution map of Erythrolamprus typhlus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.