Micrurus obscurus ( Jan and Sordelli, 1872 )

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 : 15

Micrurus obscurus ( Jan and Sordelli, 1872)

Type locality. Lima (in error); designated as Iquitos , Peru, by Schmidt (1953) .

Distribution. Known from Bolívia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, mainly in Amazonian forest ( Plt. 103A ). In Brazil, recorded in Amazonia ( Plt. 103A ) at low elevations ( Plt. 103B ). 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 103. Distribution map of Micrurus obscurus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.