Erythrolamprus pygmaeus ( Cope, 1868 )

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 : 45

Erythrolamprus pygmaeus ( Cope, 1868)

Type locality. District of Napo , department of Loreto, Peru .

Distribution. Known from Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru, in Amazonia ( Plt. 382A ). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia ( Plt. 382A ), at lowlands ( Plt. 382B ). Observed in the field in forest ( Dixon and Soini, 1986; Fernandes et al., 1999; Ávila-Pires et al., 2010; Bernarde et al., 2011; Kawashita-Ribeiro et al., 2011) and disturbed areas ( Dixon and Soini, 1986), in lakes,open areas, and secondary forest ( Martins and Oliveira, 1998).

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Plate 382. Distribution map of Erythrolamprus pygmaeus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.