Oxyrhopus melanogenys ( Tschudi, 1845 )

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 : 38

Oxyrhopus melanogenys ( Tschudi, 1845)

Type locality. Peru .

Distribution. Known from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela ( Plt. 320A ). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia, with marginal records in Chiquitano Dry Forest, upland areas of the Caatinga, and Cerrado ( Plt. 320A ), mostly at low elevations ( Plt. 320B ). Observed in the field in primary forest ( Martins and Oliveira, 1998; Bernarde and Abe, 2006; Martins et al., 2008b).

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Plate 320. Distribution map of Oxyrhopus melanogenys in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.