Cercophis auratus ( 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 : 48

Cercophis auratus ( Schlegel, 1837)

Type locality. Suriname, restricted to surroundings of Paramaribo by Hoogmoed et al. (2019) .

Distribution. Known in Brazil, and Suriname, mostly along coastal forested areas of South America ( Plt. 410A ). In Brazil, widespread in southern and central Atlantic Forest, as well as in eastern Pará ( Plt. 410A ), at low elevations ( Plt. 410B ). Map and taxonomy in Hoogmoed et al. (2019). Observed in the field in forest ( Pontes et al., 2008).

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Plate 410. Distribution map of Cercophis auratus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.