Anilius scytale ( 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 : 8

Anilius scytale ( Linnaeus, 1758)

Type locality. “Indiis” (in error). Restricted by Chippaux (1987) to Equatorial America.

Distribution. Widespread in Amazonian South America in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador,French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela ( Plt. 34A ). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia with marginal records in the Chiquitano Dry Forest and the northern portion of the Cerrado and an isolated record in the Caatinga ( Plt. 34A ). Recorded mostly at low elevations ( Plt. 34B ). Observed in the field in forest ( Cunha and Nascimento, 1993; Duellman, 1978; Dixon and Soini, 1986; Martins and Oliveira, 1998), including gallery forest in the Cerrado ( Nogueira et al., 2011).

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Plate 34. Distribution map of Anilius scytale in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.