Short Ground Snake
Erythrolamprus breviceps (Cope, 1860)
Also calledCouleuvre camuse (La) (fra) · Couresse camuse (fra) · Parelheira (por) · Короткоголовый лиофис (rus)
First described in: Cope, E. D. Catalogue of the Colubridae in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, with notes and descriptions of new species. Part II.
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distribution
Distribution. Known from Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela (Plt. 370 A). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia (Plt. 370 A), mostly at low elevations (Plt. 370 B). Observed in the field in forest (Martins and Oliveira, 1998).
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 7360688.