Chironius carinatus ( 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 : 17

Chironius carinatus ( Linnaeus, 1758)

Type locality. “Asia” (in error). Restricted to Suriname by Hoge and Lancini (1962) .

Distribution. Known from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad, and Venezuela ( Plt. 118A ). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia, northern Atlantic Forest, Caatinga, and Guianan savannas ( Plt. 118A ), mostly at low elevations ( Plt. 118B ). Previous maps and taxonomy in Dixon et al. (1993). Observed in the field in open areas, forest edge, and disturbed areas ( Dixon et al., 1993; Martins and Oliveira, 1998; Carvalho and Vilar, 2005; Barrio-Amorós and Duellman, 2009).

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Plate 118. Distribution map of Chironius carinatus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation.Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.