Micrurus lemniscatus ( 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 : 15

Micrurus lemniscatus ( Linnaeus, 1758)

Type locality. “Asia” (in error). Restricted to Belém, Pará, Brazil ( Schmidt and Walker, 1943) .

Distribution. Widespread in South America. Known from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela ( Plt. 100A ). In Brazil, widespread from Amazonia and Guianan savanna to Cerrado and Atlantic Forest, with isolated records in forest enclaves in the Caatinga ( Plt. 100A ). Most records at low elevations ( Plt. 100B ). Previous maps and taxonomy in Roze (1996), Campbell and Lamar (2004), and Silva Jr. et al. (2016). Observed in the field in forest and savanna ( Beebe, 1946; Cunha and Nascimento, 1993; Dixon and Soini, 1986; Duellman, 1978; Roze, 1996; Martins and Oliveira, 1998; Silva Jr. et al. (2016).

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Plate 100. Distribution map of Micrurus lemniscatus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.