Typhlophis squamosus ( Schlegel, 1839 )

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

Typhlophis squamosus ( Schlegel, 1839)

Type locality. Cayenne , French Guiana .

Distribution. Known from Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela on the Guiana Shield ( Plt. 33A ). In Brazil, recorded in northeastern Amazonia ( Plt. 33A ), at low elevations ( Plt. 33B ). Observed in the field in forest ( Cunha and Nascimento, 1993; Martins and Oliveira, 1998; Frota et al., 2005).

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Plate 33. Distribution map of Typhlophis squamosus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.