Xenodon severus ( 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 : 47

Xenodon severus ( Linnaeus, 1758)

Type locality. “Asia” (in error). Corrected to South America by Günther (1863) .

Distribution. Known from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador,French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname,and Venezuela, largely associated to Amazonian forest ( Plt. 405A ). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia and Guianan savannas, with marginal records in Chiquitano Dry Forest and the northern portion of the Cerrado ( Plt. 405A ), mostly at low elevations ( Plt. 405B ). Observed in the field in forested areas near creeks ( Ávila-Pires et al., 2010).

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Plate 405. Distribution map of Xenodon severus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.