Erythrolamprus viridis Günther, 1862

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 : 41

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6125659

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358-FFEE-FFFA-FF09-FAB9FB3A1510

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Plazi

scientific name

Erythrolamprus viridis Günther, 1862
status

 

Erythrolamprus viridis Günther, 1862 “Cobra-verde”

(Figs. 15.4 and 28.1)

Caatinga endemic species. It is distributed in all states in the Caatinga. Most records are in low altitudes, with a few exceeding 500 m elevation in mountain ranges of the Ceará State. It inhabits all kinds of Caatinga vegetation. The species has terrestrial habits, is diurnal, and feeds on frogs ( Vanzolini et al. 1980; Guedes 2006).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Colubridae

Genus

Erythrolamprus

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