Dipsas variegata ( Duméril et al., 1854 )

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 : 26

Dipsas variegata ( Duméril et al., 1854)

Type locality. Suriname .

Distribution. Known from Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, Suriname (uncertain type locality), Trinidad and Venezuela, along major forested regions ( Plt. 204A ). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia,including savanna enclaves,and the Atlantic Forest, forming a disjunct distribution ( Plt. 204A ),mostly at low elevations ( Plt. 204B ). Observed in the field in forest ( Argôlo, 2004; Barrio-Amorós and Duellman, 2009).

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Plate 204. Distribution map of Dipsas variegata in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.