Epicrates maurus Gray, 1849

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 : 9

Epicrates maurus Gray, 1849

Type locality. Venezuela .

Distribution. Known from Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela on the Guiana Shield ( Plt. 46A ). In Brazil, restricted to northern Amazonia and Guianan savanna ( Plt. 46A ), mostly at low elevations ( Plt. 46B ). Previous maps and taxonomy in Passos and Fernandes (2008). Observed in the field in savanna ( Rodrigues et al., 2016).

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Plate 46. Distribution map of Epicrates maurus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.