Chironius exoletus ( 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 : 17

Chironius exoletus ( Linnaeus, 1758)

Type locality. “Ásia” (in error). Restricted to Brazil by Fitzinger (1843) .

Distribution. Widespread in South America.Known from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador,French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela ( Plt. 120A ). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia, Cerrado, and Atlantic Forest, occurring marginally in Chiquitano Dry Forest, Pantanal, and Caatinga ( Plt. 120A ), mostly at low elevations ( Plt. 120B ). Previous maps and taxonomy in Dixon et al. (1993). Observed in the field in dry forest, humid lowland forest, upland forest and gallery forest ( Dixon et al., 1993; Centeno et al., 2008; FranÇa et al., 2008; Freitas et al., 2018).

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Plate 120. Distribution map of Chironius exoletus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.