Micrurus tikuna Feitosa et al., 2015

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 : 17

Micrurus tikuna Feitosa et al., 2015

Type locality. Instituto Nacional de ColonizaÇão e Reforma Agrária neighborhood, Tabatinga, state of Amazonas, Brazil .

Distribution. Known from Brazil and Colombia ( Plt. 114A ). Restricted to a small portion of western Amazonia at the border between Brazil and Colombia ( Plt. 114A ) at low elevation ( Plt. 114B ). Previous maps and taxonomy in Silva Jr. et al. (2016). No detailed field data on habitat use are available for this species.

Figures

Plate 114. Distribution map of Micrurus tikuna in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.