Apostolepis gaboi Rodrigues, 1993

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Apostolepis gaboi Rodrigues, 1993

Type locality. Village of Queimadas , left margin of the São Francisco River, Pilão Arcado, state of Bahia, Brazil .

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil ( Plt. 240A ). Known only from three nearby localities in the Caatinga (Fig. 240A) at low elevations (Fig. 240B). Observed in the field in xeric scrubland on sandy soil ( Rodrigues, 2003; Guedes et al., 2018b).

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Plate 240. Distribution map of Apostolepis gaboi in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.