Oxybelis aeneus (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 : 20

Oxybelis aeneus (Wagler in Spix, 1824)

Type locality. Rio Solimões , Tefé, state of Amazonas, Brazil .

Distribution. Widespread from Central America ( Wallach et al., 2014) to South America, in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela ( Plt. 141A ). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia, Cerrado, Caatinga, to northern and central Atlantic Forest ( Plt. 141A ), at low to high elevations ( Plt. 141B ). Observed in the field in forest and open areas, including grasslands ( FranÇa and Araújo, 2006; Martins et al., 2008b; Recoder et al., 2011; Marques et al., 2017).

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Plate 141. Distribution map of Oxybelis fulgidus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.