Corallus caninus ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

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 : 8

Corallus caninus ( Linnaeus, 1758)

Type locality. “America.”

Distribution. Known in the Amazonia of Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela ( Plt. 40A ). In Brazil, recorded in Amazonia, north of the Amazon River ( Plt. 40A ), mostly at low elevations but reaching marginal upland portions of the Guiana Shield ( Plt. 40B ). Previous maps and taxonomy in Henderson et al. (2009). Observed in the field in forest ( Martins and Oliveira, 1998).

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Plate 40. Distribution map of Corallus caninus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.