Helicops leopardinus ( Schlegel, 1837 )

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 : 34

Helicops leopardinus ( Schlegel, 1837)

Type locality. Unknown.

Distribution. Widespread in South America, occurring in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, and Suriname ( Plt. 283A ). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia, Cerrado, Pantanal, and Caatinga, with marginal records in the northern portion of the Atlantic Forest ( Plt. 283A ), mostly at low elevations ( Plt. 283B ). Observed in the field in rivers, flooded grasslands, and gallery forest, as well as disturbed areas ( Strüssmann and Sazima, 1993; Yanosky et al., 1996; Carvalho and Nogueira, 1998; Giraudo and Scrocchi, 2002).

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Plate 283. Distribution map of Helicops leopardinus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.