Rhinobothryum lentiginosum ( Scopoli, 1785 )

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

Rhinobothryum lentiginosum ( Scopoli, 1785)

Type locality. Restricted to Tropical South America by Boulenger (1896) .

Distribution. Known from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela, mostly in Amazonian forest ( Plt. 144A ). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia ( Plt. 144A ), at low elevations ( Plt. 144B ). Observed in the field in forest ( Cunha and Nascimento, 1993; Martins and Oliveira, 1998).

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Plate 144. Distribution map of Rhinobothryum lentiginosum in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.