Oxyrhopus guibei Hoge and Romano, 1978

Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano & Marques, Otavio A. V., 2014, Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil, Zootaxa 3863 (1), pp. 1-93 : 44

Oxyrhopus guibei Hoge and Romano, 1978 “Falsa-coral”

(Figs. 16.5 and 29.2)

We have few records of this species in Bahia State, municipalities of Mucugê and Rio de Contas. These areas are located above 800 m elevation. It is also distributed in Atlantic Forest and Cerrado ( Marques et al. 2001; Sawaya et al. 2008; Nogueira et al. 2010). The records inside the Caatinga are on Diamantina Plateau , with a complex mosaic of vegetation cover that includes phytophysiognomies of caatinga, cerrado, and humid and dry forests. It has terrestrial habits, is nocturnal, and feeds on mammals and lizards ( Marques et al. 2001).