Taeniophallus nicagus ( Cope, 1868 )

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 : 28

Taeniophallus nicagus ( Cope, 1868)

Type locality. Brazil .

Distribution. Known from northern South America in Brazil, French Guiana, and Suriname in Amazonian forest ( Plt. 222A ). In Brazil, recorded in the northern portion of Amazonia and in Guianan savannas ( Plt. 222A ), mostly at low elevations ( Plt. 222B ). Observed in the field in forest and disturbed areas ( Martins and Oliveira, 1998; Starace, 2015; Morais et al., 2010).

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Plate 222. Distribution map of Taeniophallus nicagus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.