Dendrophidion dendrophis ( Schlegel, 1837 )

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 : 19

Dendrophidion dendrophis ( Schlegel, 1837)

Type locality. Cayenne , French Guiana .

Distribution. Known from Bolívia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, mostly in Amazonia ( Plt. 131A ). In Brazil, it is widespread in Amazonia with marginal records in Chiquitano Dry Forest ( Plt. 131A ), mostly at low elevations ( Plt. 131B ). Observed in the field in forest, pasture, and disturbed areas ( Martins and Oliveira, 1998; Bernarde and Abe, 2006; Silva et al., 2011).

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Plate 131. Distribution map of Dendrophidion dendrophis in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.