Atractus insipidus Roze, 1961

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 : 22

Atractus insipidus Roze, 1961

Type locality. M-1 landmark, Serra de Pacaraima , headwaters of Rio Uraricapará on the Brazilian side (state of Roraima) and Río Paraguamusi on the Venezuelan side (estado Bolivar). Brazilian-Venezuelan border .

Distribution. Recorded at the Brazil-Venezuela border on the Guiana Shield ( Plt. 167A ). Restricted to northern Guianan savannas ( Plt. 167A ) at intermediate to high elevations ( Plt. 167B ). No detailed field data on habitat use are available for this species.

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Plate 167. Distribution map of Atractus insipidus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.