Micrurus averyi Schmidt, 1939

Type locality. District of Courantyne, Guyana .

Distribution. Known from Brazil, Guyana, and Suriname on the Guiana Shield (Plt. 87A). In Brazil, restricted to central and northern Amazonia, north of the Amazon and east of the Rio Negro (Plt. 87A) at low elevations (Plt. 87B). Previous maps and taxonomy in Roze (1996), Campbell and Lamar (2004), and Silva Jr. et al. (2016). Observed in the field in forest (Martins and Oliveira, 1998).