Crotalus durissus ( 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 : 13

Crotalus durissus ( Linnaeus, 1758)

Type locality. “America.” Restricted to Suriname in Savage et al. (2005) .

Distribution. Known from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, Paraguay, Suriname, Venezuela, and Uruguay, along the Guiana Shield and the South American open diagonal ( Plt. 79A ). In Brazil, widespread in the Cerrado, Caatinga, Araucaria Forest, and Chiquitano Dry Forest, with marginal records in the Pantanal, Pampas Grasslands and open enclaves in Amazonia and Atlantic Forest ( Plt. 79A ) at low to high elevations ( Plt. 79B ). Previous maps and taxonomy in Campbell and Lamar (2004). Observed in the field mostly in open vegetation types (grassland, savanna; Campbell and Lamar, 2004; Wüster et al., 2005; FranÇa and Araújo, 2006; Uetanabaro et al., 2007), as well as in disturbed open areas ( Almeida-Santos and Orsi, 2002; São Pedro and Pires, 2009).

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Plate 79. Distribution map of Crotalus durissus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.