Anilius scytale (Linnaeus, 1758)

Type locality. “Indiis” (in error). Restricted by Chippaux (1987) to Equatorial America.

Distribution. Widespread in Amazonian South America in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador,French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela (Plt. 34A). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia with marginal records in the Chiquitano Dry Forest and the northern portion of the Cerrado and an isolated record in the Caatinga (Plt. 34A). Recorded mostly at low elevations (Plt. 34B). Observed in the field in forest (Cunha and Nascimento, 1993; Duellman, 1978; Dixon and Soini, 1986; Martins and Oliveira, 1998), including gallery forest in the Cerrado (Nogueira et al., 2011).