Epicrates cenchria ( 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 : 9

Epicrates cenchria ( Linnaeus, 1758)

Type locality. Suriname .

Distribution. Known from Bolívia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, along forested regions ( Plt. 44A ). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia and the northern portion of the Atlantic Forest, forming a disjunct distribution, with scattered records in the northern portion of the Cerrado ( Plt. 44A ), mostly at low elevations ( Plt. 44B ). Previous maps and taxonomy in Passos and Fernandes (2008). Observed in the field in primary and secondary forest and gallery forest ( Bernarde and Abe, 2006; Rocha et al., 2004; Passos and Fernandes, 2008; Santana et al., 2008).

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Plate 44. Distribution map of Epicrates cenchria in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.