Mastigodryas boddaerti ( Sentzen, 1796 )

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

Mastigodryas boddaerti ( Sentzen, 1796)

Type locality. “America,” restricted to Suriname ( Merrem, 1820) .

Distribution. Widespread in northern South America, occurring in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela ( Plt. 137A ). In Brazil, widespread in eastern and northern Amazonia, east of Rio Negro, with marginal records in the northern portion of the Cerrado,Guianan savannas, Chiquitano Dry Forest,as well as in upland forest enclaves in Caatinga ( Plt. 137A ). Recorded mostly from low elevations ( Plt. 137B ). Observed in the field in savanna, forest clearing, and disturbed open areas ( Carvalho and Nogueira, 1998; Martins and Oliveira, 1998; Bernarde and Abe, 2006).

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Plate 137. Distribution map of Mastigodryas boddaerti in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.