Typhlops amoipira Rodrigues and Juncá, 2002

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 : 19

Typhlops amoipira Rodrigues and Juncá, 2002 “Cobra-cega”

(Figs. 8.6 and 21.3)

Caatinga endemic species. Known from only two records, in the states of Bahia and Minas Gerais. It is distributed in areas with between 553 and 629 m elevation. Inhabits bushy and herbaceous caatinga with bromeliads and clumps of grasses on sandy soils ( Rodrigues & Juncá 2002), along the São Francisco sandy dunes. It also occurs in cerrado sensu stricto with sandy soils, dissected by veredas and riparian forests (Fernandes et al. 2010). It has fossorial and psammophylous habits, is nocturnal and diurnal, and feeds mostly on arthropods ( Rodrigues & Juncá 2002).