Bothrops leucurus Wagler, 1824

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 : 11

Bothrops leucurus Wagler in Spix, 1824

Type locality. State of Bahia, Brazil .

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil ( Plt. 65A ). Widespread in the northern portion of the Atlantic Forest, including nearby upland enclaves in the Caatinga ( Plt. 65A ), mostly at low to intermediate elevations ( Plt. 65B ). Previous maps and taxonomy in Campbell and Lamar (2004). Observed in the field in primary and disturbed forest ( Campbell and Lamar, 2004).

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Plate 65. Distribution map of Bothrops leucurus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.