Leptophis ahaetulla ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

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 : 19

Leptophis ahaetulla ( Linnaeus, 1758)

Type locality. Guyana, according to Hoge and Romano (1966) .

Distribution. Widespread from Central America ( Wallach et al., 2014) to most of South America, occurring in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Surinam, and Venezuela ( Plt. 136A ). In Brazil, recorded in all ecoregions except Araucaria Forest and Pampas Grasslands ( Plt. 136A ), mostly at low elevations ( Plt. 136B ). Observed in the field in forest, including upland forest enclaves in Caatinga, gallery forest in Cerrado, and disturbed areas ( Strüssmann and Sazima, 1993; Carvalho and Nogueira, 1998; Martins and Oliveira, 1998; Marques, 2001; Giraudo and Scrocchi, 2002; Rodrigues, 2003; Bernarde and Abe, 2006; Martins et al., 2008b; Oliveira-Santos and Leuchtenberger, 2009; Loebmann and Haddad, 2010).

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Plate 136. Distribution map of Leptophis ahaetulla in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.