Check List 13(4): 251-254, doi: 10.15560/13.4.251
First record of Siphlophis compressus (Daudin, 1803) (Serpentes, Dipsadidae) from the state of Roraima, Brazil
expand article infoArthur Diesel Abegg‡, Arthur de Sena Santos§, Flora Roncolatto Ortiz|, Cleria Mendonça de Moraes, Marco Antonio de Freitas#
‡ Instituto Butantan, Laboratório Especial de Coleções Zoológicas, Sao Paulo, Brazil§ Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil| Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil¶ Universidade Federal de Roraima, Boa Vista, Brazil# Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio), Murici, Brazil

Corresponding author: Arthur Diesel Abegg ( arthur_abegg@hotmail.com )

Academic editor: Diego Santana
© 2017 Arthur Diesel Abegg, Arthur de Sena Santos, Flora Roncolatto Ortiz, Cleria Mendonça de Moraes, Marco Antonio de Freitas.
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation: Abegg AD, Santos AS, Ortiz FR, Moraes CM, Freitas MA (2017) First record of Siphlophis compressus (Daudin, 1803) (Serpentes, Dipsadidae) from the state of Roraima, Brazil. Check List 13(4): 251-254. https://doi.org/10.15560/13.4.251
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Abstract
We present the first record of Siphlophis compressus from the state of Roraima, Brazil. This report, from the Serra do Tepequém, extends this species’ distribution in Brazil by 789 km to the northwest of the nearest previous locality recorded (Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil).
Keywords
Amazon rainforest, geographical distribution, Amajari