Boiruna sertaneja Zaher, 1996

Nogueira, Cristiano C., Argôlo, Antonio J. S., Arzamendia, Vanesa, Azevedo, Josué A., Barbo, Fausto E., Bérnils, Renato S., Bolochio, Bruna E., Borges-Martins, Marcio, Brasil-Godinho, Marcela, Braz, Henrique, Buononato, Marcus A., Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F., Colli, Guarino R., Costa, Henrique C., Franco, Francisco L., Giraudo, Alejandro, Gonzalez, Rodrigo C., Guedes, Thaís, Hoogmoed, Marinus S., Marques, Otavio A. V., Montingelli, Giovanna G., Passos, Paulo, Prudente, Ana L. C., Rivas, Gilson A., Sanchez, Paola M., Serrano, Filipe C., Silva Jr., Nelson J., Strüssmann, Christine, Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S., Zaher, Hussam, Sawaya, Ricardo J. & Martins, Marcio, 2019, Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna, South American Journal of Herpetology 14 (s 1), pp. 1-274 : 37

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.2994/SAJH-D-19-00120.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10063355
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scientific name	Boiruna sertaneja Zaher, 1996
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Type locality. Barreiras , state of Bahia, Brazil .

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil ( Plt. 309A View Plate 309 ). Widespread in the Caatinga and recorded marginally in the Cerrado and Atlantic Forest ( Plt. 309A View Plate 309 ) from low to high elevations ( Plt. 309A View Plate 309 ). Observed in the field in open areas, associated with dry vegetation, including herbaceous, arboreal, and bushy caatinga, and savanna ( Zaher, 1996; Guedes et al., 2014).

References

Guedes T. B., Nogueira C., Marques O. A. V. 2014. Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863: 1 - 93. DOI

Zaher H. 1996. A new genus and species of pseudoboine snake, with a revision of the genus Clelia (Serpentes, Xenodontinae). Bollettino Museo Regionale Di Scienze Naturali 14: 289 - 337.

Figures

Plate 309. Distribution map of Boiruna sertaneja in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.