Boa constrictor 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 : 8

Boa constrictor Linnaeus 1758

Type locality. “Indiis” (in error).

Distribution. Widespread in South America, occurring in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela ( Plt. 38A ). In Brazil, recorded in most ecoregions, except Araucaria Forest and Pampas Grasslands ( Plt. 38A ), from low to high elevations ( Plt. 38B ). Observed in the field in primary and secondary forest, savanna, grasslands,dry forest,and xeric vegetation ( Cunha and Nascimento, 1993; Vanzolini et al., 1980; Martins and Oliveira, 1998; Argôlo, 2004; Rodrigues, 2005; Sawaya et al., 2008; Guedes et al., 2014).

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Plate 38. Distribution map of Boa constrictor in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.