Boddaert's Tropical Racer
Mastigodryas boddaerti (Sentzen, 1796)
Also calledBiru (por) · Boddaerts Peitschennatter (deu) · Brun Øglesnog (dan) · Chasseur des jardins (fra) · Cobra-Cipó (por) · Corredeira (por) · Couleuvre de Boddaert (fra) · Couleuvre de Boddaert (La) (fra) · Culebra boba (spa) · Jararaca-Listrada (por) · Jararacuçu (por) · Jararacuçu-do-Brejo (por) · Rateira (por) · Serpiente cazadora (spa)
First described in: Sentzen. Ophiologische Fragmente.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution. Widespread in northern South America, occurring in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela (Plt. 137 A). In Brazil, widespread in eastern and northern Amazonia, east of Rio Negro, with marginal records in the northern portion of the Cerrado, Guianan savannas, Chiquitano Dry Forest, as well as in upland forest enclaves in Caatinga (Plt. 137 A). Recorded mostly from low elevations (Plt. 137 B). Observed in the field in savanna, forest clearing, and disturbed open areas (Carvalho and Nogueira, 1998; Martins and Oliveira, 1998; Bernarde and Abe, 2006).
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
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Type locality. “ America, ” restricted to Suriname (Merrem, 1820).
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
Mastigodryas boddaerti (Sentzen 1796) Sentzen 1796
Mastigodryas boddaerti (Sentzen, 1796) (Figs. 12.4 and 25.2) It was recorded only in states of Piauí (Sete Cidades National Park) and Ceará (Ibiapaba-Araripe Plateau). Thus, it was registered in both high (775 m elevation) and low (60 m elevation) areas in a relatively restricted area of the northwestern portion of the Caatinga, close to the Cerrado contacts. It also occurs in Amazon Forest, Cerrado, and Pantanal (Martins & Oliveira 1998; Marques et al. 2005; Nogueira et al. 2010). In the Cerrado it is found mainly along gallery forest areas (Nogueira et al. 2011). It was recorded in a highland relictual forest area (Nascimento & Lima-Verde 1989; Loebmann & Haddad 2010; Montingelli et al. 2011) inside the Caatinga, and was also found in typical cerrado vegetation in Sete Cidades National Park (Rocha & Prudente 2010). It has terrestrial habits, is diurnal, and feeds on vertebrates (Marques et al. 2005).
Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2456203.