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Micrurus brasiliensis Roze 1967
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Description
Micrurus brasiliensis Roze, 1967 “Cobra-de-coral, Coral-da-legítima”
(Figs. 10.8 and 23.3)
It was recorded in only two localities on Bahia and Minas Gerais States, close to the contact with the Cerrado region. It was found from 452 to 630 m elevation. This snake is endemic and widely distributed in the Cerrado region (Nogueira et al. 2011) and may be found in savanna enclaves inside Caatinga-Cerrado contact. It has fossorial habits, is nocturnal and diurnal, and feeds mostly on elongated vertebrates (Marques et al. 2001).
Notes
Published as part of Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano & Marques, Otavio A. V., 2014, Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil, pp. 1-93 in Zootaxa 3863 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/287111
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Roze
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Elapidae
- Genus
- Micrurus
- Species
- brasiliensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Micrurus brasiliensis Roze, 1967 sec. Guedes, Nogueira & Marques, 2014
References
- Marques, O. A. V., Eterovic, A. & Sazima, I. (2001) Serpentes da Mata Atlantica: Guia Ilustrado para a Serra do Mar. Holos Editora, Ribeirao Preto, 184 pp.