Spilotes sulphureus (Wagler, 1824)

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 : 21

Spilotes sulphureus (Wagler in Spix, 1824)

Type locality. Uncertain locality in Rio Japurá, state of Amazonas, Brazil .

Distribution. Known from northern South America in Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Venezuela ( Plt. 147A ). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia and the Atlantic Forest, forming a disjunct distribution ( Plt. 147A ), with marginal records in the northern portion of the Cerrado and the Caatinga ( Plt. 147A ). Most records at low elevations (Figg 83B). Observed in the field in forest ( Martins and Oliveira, 1998).

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Plate 147. Distribution map of Spilotes sulphureus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.