Dipsas indica Laurenti, 1768

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 : 25

Dipsas indica Laurenti, 1768

Type locality. Ceylon (in error). Corrected to Amazon region, South America, by Peters (1960) .

Distribution. Known from Bolívia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, mostly along forested regions ( Plt. 197A ). In Brazil,widespread in Amazonia and in the coastal portion of the Atlantic Forest, forming a disjunct distribution ( Plt. 197A ), mostly at low elevations ( Plt. 197B ). Observed in the field in primary and secondary forest, humid forest, and disturbed areas ( Argôlo and Alves, 2002; Martins and Oliveira, 1998; Strüssmann, 2003; Bernarde and Abe, 2006; Moreira et al., 2009; Shibatta et al., 2009; Fernandes et al., 2010b).

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Plate 197. Distribution map of Dipsas indica in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.