Apostolepis arenaria Rodrigues, 1992

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 : 35

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A683CABE-4305-47A4-A063-03FDF93182C0

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6125607

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358-FFE4-FFF0-FF09-FBE1FE101660

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scientific name

Apostolepis arenaria Rodrigues, 1992
status

 

Apostolepis arenaria Rodrigues, 1992

(Figs. 13.4 and 26.3)

Caatinga endemic species. This species is recorded only to the type-locality, Alagoado village, municipality of Casa Nova, state of Bahia. This is a lowland locality (ca. 400 m elevation) on the western banks of the São Francisco river channel. It was recorded only in herbaceous and bushy caatinga with dunes and sandy soils ( Rodrigues 1992). It has fossorial and psammophylous habits, is diurnal and nocturnal, and feeds on elongated vertebrates ( Rodrigues 1992).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Colubridae

Genus

Apostolepis

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