Atractus major Boulenger, 1894

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Atractus major Boulenger, 1894

Type locality. Canelos , province of Pastaza, Ecuador .

Distribution. Known from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela in Amazonian forest ( Plt. 170A ).In Brazil,widespread in Amazonia ( Plt. 170A ), mostly at low elevations ( Plt. 170B ). Observed in the field in primary and secondary forest ( Dixon and Soini, 1977; Martins and Oliveira, 1993; Schargel et al., 2013).

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Plate 170. Distribution map of Atractus major in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.