South American Sipo
Chironius multiventris Schmidt & Walker, 1943
Also calledCainana (por) · Chasseur démesuré (fra) · Cobra-Cipó (por) · Cobra-Verde (por) · Couleuvre démesurée (fra) · Couleuvre démesurée (La) (fra) · Peruviansk Sipo (dan) · Sacaiboia (por) · Serra-Veia (por)
First described in: Schmidt, Karl P. & Walker, Warren F. Peruvian snakes from the University of Arequipa.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution. Known from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, mostly in Amazonia (Plt. 127 A). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia and also in Guianan savannas (Plt. 127 A), mostly at low elevations (Plt. 127 B). Previous maps and taxonomy in Dixon et al. (1993). Observed in the field in primary forest (Dixon et al., 1993; Bernarde and Abe, 2006; Martins et al., 2008 a).
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
materials_examined
Type locality. Río Madre de Diós, departamento Madre de Diós, Peru.
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 8170948.