Phrynonax polylepis ( Peters, 1867 )

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 : 20

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.2994/SAJH-D-19-00120.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10062777
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scientific name	Phrynonax polylepis ( Peters, 1867 )
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Phrynonax polylepis ( Peters, 1867) View in CoL

Type locality. Suriname .

Distribution. Known from Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Venezuela, mostly in Amazonia ( Plt. 143A View Plate 143 ). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia, with marginal records in Chiquitano Dry Forest and contact areas between Amazonia and Cerrado ( Plt. 143A View Plate 143 ), mostly at low elevations ( Plt. 143B View Plate 143 ). Observed in the field in forest ( Farias, 2016).