Erythrolamprus cobellus ( 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 : 43

Erythrolamprus cobellus ( Linnaeus, 1758)

Type locality. “America.”

Distribution. Known from Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad, and Venezuela ( Plt. 372A ). In Brazil, known only from northern Amazonia and Guianan savannas, north of the Amazon River ( Plt. 372A ), mostly at low elevations ( Plt. 372B ). Maps and taxonomy in Fernandes et al. (2002), see also Dixon (1983). Observed in the field in primary and secondary forest, and also in grassland, often near water bodies ( FranÇa et al., 2006; Dixon, 1983).

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Plate 372. Distribution map of Erythrolamprus cobellus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.