Micrurus averyi Schmidt, 1939

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Micrurus averyi Schmidt, 1939

Type locality. District of Courantyne , Guyana .

Distribution. Known from Brazil, Guyana, and Suriname on the Guiana Shield ( Plt. 87A ). In Brazil, restricted to central and northern Amazonia, north of the Amazon and east of the Rio Negro ( Plt. 87A ) at low elevations ( Plt. 87B ). Previous maps and taxonomy in Roze (1996), Campbell and Lamar (2004), and Silva Jr. et al. (2016). Observed in the field in forest ( Martins and Oliveira, 1998).

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Plate 87. Distribution map of Micrurus averyi in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.