Oxyrhopus formosus ( Wied, 1820 )

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 formosus ( Wied, 1820)

Type locality. State of Bahia, Brazil .

Distribution. Known from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guiana, Suriname, and Venezuela ( Plt. 318A ). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia and in the coastal region of northern Atlantic Forest ( Plt. 318A ), forming a disjunct distribution, mostly at low elevations ( Plt. 318B ). Observed in the field in forest ( Martins and Oliveira, 1998; Argôlo, 2004; Bernarde et al., 2011).

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Plate 318. Distribution map of Oxyrhopus formosus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.