Oxybelis fulgidus ( Daudin, 1803 )

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 : 20

Oxybelis fulgidus ( Daudin, 1803)

Type locality. Río Santo Domingo , Cuzco, Peru .

Distribution. Known from Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, mostly in Amazonian forest ( Plt. 142A ). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia and Guianan savannas, with marginal records in the Cerrado and Chiquitano Dry Forest ( Plt. 142A ), mostly at low elevations ( Plt. 142B ). Observed in the field in forest and disturbed areas ( Martins and Oliveira, 1998; Martins et al., 2008b).

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Plate 142. Distribution map of Palusophis bifossatus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.