Atractus elaps ( Günther, 1858 )

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 : 22

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.2994/SAJH-D-19-00120.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10062837
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scientific name	Atractus elaps ( Günther, 1858 )
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Atractus elaps ( Günther, 1858) View in CoL

Type locality. Guayaquil (in error), Ecuador .

Distribution. Known from Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela, in Amazonia ( Plt. 161A View Plate 161 ). In Brazil, restricted to Amazonia ( Plt. 161A View Plate 161 ), mostly at low elevations ( Plt. 161B View Plate 161 ). Observed in the field in primary and secondary forest ( Hoogmoed and Prudente, 2003; Bernarde, 2004; Silva Haad, 2004; Passos et al., 2009).