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Amazon False Fer-De-Lance
Xenodon severus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Also calledAchatadeira (por) · Boipeva (por) · Cururuboia (por) · Falsa-Jararaca (por) · Jararaca (por) · Jaçanarana (por) · Kæmpe-hugormesnog (dan) · Pepéua (por) · Xénodon sévère (Le) (fra) · Xénodon à monocle (fra) · Жабоед Линнея (rus)
First described in: Linnaeus, C. Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution. Known from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, largely associated to Amazonian forest (Plt. 405 A). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia and Guianan savannas, with marginal records in Chiquitano Dry Forest and the northern portion of the Cerrado (Plt. 405 A), mostly at low elevations (Plt. 405 B). Observed in the field in forested areas near creeks (Ávila-Pires et al., 2010).
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
materials_examined
Type locality. “ Asia ” (in error). Corrected to South America by Günther (1863).
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5959587.