Simophis rhinostoma (Schlegel, 1837)

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 : 33

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.6125595

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358-FFE6-FFF2-FF09-FD0FFF1510D5

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Plazi

scientific name

Simophis rhinostoma (Schlegel, 1837)
status

 

Simophis rhinostoma (Schlegel, 1837) “Falsa-coral”

(Figs. 12.7 and 25.4)

The first and single record of this species in Caatinga is in state of Bahia, municipality of Mucugê, Diamantina Plateau , 1,100 m of altitude, in open, grassy cerrado relicts. It occurs widely along the Cerrado region and Pantanal ( Marques et al. 2005; Nogueira et al. 2010). The presence of this species in the Caatinga is probably associated with savanna enclaves in high altitude, because it is considered an open area species ( Sawaya et al. 2008; Nogueira et al. 2010). The species has terrestrial habits, is diurnal, and feeds on frogs ( Marques et al. 2005; Sawaya et al. 2008).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Colubridae

Genus

Simophis

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