Phimophis guianensis ( Troschel, 1848 )

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 : 39

Phimophis guianensis ( Troschel, 1848)

Type locality. Savannah near Pirara, Guyana (fide Kornacker, 1999) .

Distribution. Known from Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela ( Plt. 327A ). In Brazil,recorded in Amazonia,north of the Amazon River,and in Guianan savannas ( Plt. 327A ),at low elevations ( Plt. 327B ). Observed in the field in savanna and open areas ( Rueda-Solano and Castellanos-Barliza, 2010; Swanson, 1945).

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Plate 327. Distribution map of Phimophis guianensis in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.