Atractus torquatus ( 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 : 24

Atractus torquatus ( Duméril et al., 1854)

Type locality. Paramaribo, Suriname .

Distribution. Known from Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela ( Plt. 186A ). In Brazil, widespread in northern Amazonia and in its contact with Guianan savanna ( Plt. 186A ) at low elevations ( Plt. 186B ). Observed in the field in primary and secondary forest, and savanna ( Dixon and Soini, 1977, 1986, Hoogmoed, 1980, Martins and Oliveira, 1993).

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Plate 186. Distribution map of Atractus torquatus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.