Micrurus putumayensis Lancini, 1962

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 : 16

Micrurus putumayensis Lancini, 1962

Type locality. Puerto Socorro , Río Putumayo, Iquitos, department of Loreto, Peru .

Distribution. Known from Brazil, Colombia, and Peru in Amazonia ( Plt. 108A ). In Brazil, restricted to western Amazonia near the borders of Brazil, Colombia, and Peru ( Plt.108A ) at low elevations( Plt.108B ). Previous maps and taxonomy in Roze (1996), Campbell and Lamar (2004),and Silva Jr. et al. (2016). Observed in the field in primary and secondary forest ( Roze, 1996; Campbell and Lamar, 2004).

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Plate 108. Distribution map of Micrurus putumayensis in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.