Amerotyphlops reticulatus ( 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 : 5

Amerotyphlops reticulatus ( Linnaeus, 1758)

Type locality. “America.”

Distribution. Widespread in northern South America, mostly in Amazonia ( Plt. 6A ). Recorded in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela ( Plt. 6A ). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia, with marginal records in the Caatinga, Cerrado, and Chiquitano Dry Forest ( Plt. 6A ), mostly at low elevations ( Plt. 6B ). Observed in the field in forest ( Duellman, 1978; Dixon and Soini, 1986; Cunha and Nascimento, 1993; Martins and Oliveira, 1998).

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Plate 6. Distribution map of Amerotyphlops reticulatus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.