Phrynonax polylepis ( Peters, 1867 )

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

Phrynonax polylepis ( Peters, 1867)

Type locality. Suriname .

Distribution. Known from Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Venezuela, mostly in Amazonia ( Plt. 143A ). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia, with marginal records in Chiquitano Dry Forest and contact areas between Amazonia and Cerrado ( Plt. 143A ), mostly at low elevations ( Plt. 143B ). Observed in the field in forest ( Farias, 2016).

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Plate 143. Distribution map of Phrynonax polylepis in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.