Continent: Middle-America Caribbean South-America
Distribution: Mexico (Yucatan), Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador,  Nicaragua ?, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama,  Colombia, French Guiana, Venezuela (Amazonas, Merida, Apure, [HR 32: 58]), NW Ecuador, Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay, N Argentina (Mendoza, La Pampa, Entre Rios, Jujuy, Misiones), Brazil (Pará, Amazonas, Rio Grande do Sul ?), Peru (Pasco etc.),  Lesser Antilles: Dominica, St. Lucia, Barbuda (fossil only), Grenada, Trinidad; elevation (Honduras): 120 m  Clelia clelia clelia: Dominica and St. Lucia; on the mainland from Central America south throughout much of tropical South America; Trinidad.  Clelia clelia groomei (HOLOTYPE MCZ 79767): Grenada.  
Type locality: Suriname.