Philodryas viridissima (Linnaeus, 1758)

Type locality. Suriname .

Distribution. Known from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, mostly in Amazonia (Plt. 307A). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia, with marginal records in the Cerrado,Caatinga and Chiquitano Dry Forest, and a single isolated record in the Atlantic Forest of Bahia (Plt. 307A), at low elevations (Plt. 307B). Observed in the field in forest (Cunha and Nascimento, 1993; Martins and Oliveira, 1998).