Philodryas olfersii ( Lichtenstein, 1823 )

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 : 36

Philodryas olfersii ( Lichtenstein, 1823)

Type locality. Brazil .

Distribution. Widespread in South America,known from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Paraguay, and Venezuela ( Plt. 304A ). In Brazil, recorded in all ecoregions, mainly in the Atlantic Forest, Caatinga and Cerrado, with scattered records in Amazonia ( Plt. 304A ), at low to high elevations ( Plt. 304B ). Observed in the field in forest, gallery forest, savanna, and disturbed areas ( Sazima and Manzini, 1995; Carvalho and Nogueira, 1998; FranÇa et al., 2008; Sawaya et al., 2008).

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Plate 304. Distribution map of Philodryas olfersii in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.