Taeniophallus brevirostris ( Peters, 1863 )

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 brevirostris ( Peters, 1863)

Type locality. Near Quito (in error), Ecuador .

Distribution. Known from Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, and Peru, mostly in Amazonian forest ( Plt. 221A ). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia ( Plt. 221A ) at low elevations ( Plt. 221B ). Observed in the field in forest and disturbed areas ( Martins and Oliveira, 1998; Morais et al., 2010).

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Plate 221. Distribution map of Taeniophallus brevirostris in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.