Published December 31, 2014
| Version v1
Taxonomic treatment
Open
Chironius exoletus Linnaeus 1758
Description
Chironius exoletus (Linnaeus, 1758) “Cobra-de-cipó”
(Figs. 11.4 and 24.2)
First record in the Caatinga. It is distributed in states of Ceará, Paraíba, Pernambuco, and Bahia. All records are in highlands with at least 500 m elevation. It is also recorded in the Atlantic Forest, Cerrado, and Pantanal (Marques et al. 2001, 2005; Nogueira et al. 2010, 2011). Several records inside Caatinga, including those in São Caitano range (Pernambuco) and Mata do Pau Ferro (Paraíba), are associated to forest enclaves and indicate that this species is a forest dweller. It has semi-arboreal habits, is diurnal, and feeds mostly on frogs (Marques et al. 2001, 2005).
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 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/287111
Files
Files
(1.0 kB)
| Name | Size | Download all |
|---|---|---|
|
md5:1044d4b75f019a1dc476b7f2f9f114ef
|
1.0 kB | Download |
System files
(6.3 kB)
| Name | Size | Download all |
|---|---|---|
|
md5:cf68b78a4ba30afa53079a4a7ca25da6
|
6.3 kB | Download |
Linked records
Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Colubridae
- Genus
- Chironius
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Squamata
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- exoletus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chironius exoletus Linnaeus, 1758 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.
- Marques, O. A. V., Eterovic, A., Strussmann, C. & Sazima, I. (2005) Serpentes do Pantanal: Guia ilustrado. Holos Editora, Ribeirao Preto, 184 pp.
- Nogueira, C., Colli, G. R., Costa, G. & Machado, R. B. (2010) Diversidade de repteis Squamata e evolucao do conhecimento faunistico no Cerrado. In: Diniz, I. R., Marinho-Filho, J., Machado, R. B. & Cavalcanti, R. B. (Eds.), Cerrado: conhecimento cientifico quantitativo como subsidio para acoes de conservacao. Editora UNB, Brasilia, pp. 333 - 375.