Oxyrhopus petolarius ( 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 : 38

Oxyrhopus petolarius ( Linnaeus, 1758)

Type locality. “Africa” (in error).

Distribution. Known from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guiana, Paraguay, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela ( Plt. 321A ). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia, Atlantic Forest, and Cerrado, with marginal occurrences in Caatinga, Araucaria Forest, Guianan savannas, Chiquitano Dry Forest, and Pantanal ( Plt. 321A ) at low to high elevations ( Plt. 321B ). Observed in the field in open areas, savanna, forest, and disturbed areas ( Cunha and Nascimento, 1993, 1983b; Valdujo and Nogueira, 2001; Argôlo, 2004; Bernarde and Abe, 2006).

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Plate 321. Distribution map of Oxyrhopus petolarius in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.