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Apostolepis arenaria Rodrigues 1992
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Description
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).
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 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/287111
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Rodrigues
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Colubridae
- Genus
- Apostolepis
- Species
- arenaria
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Apostolepis arenaria Rodrigues, 1992 sec. Guedes, Nogueira & Marques, 2014
References
- Rodrigues, M. T. (1992) Herpetofauna das dunas interiores do Rio Sao Francisco: Bahia: Brasil. V. Duas novas especies de Apostolepis (Ophidia, Colubridae). Memorias do Instituto Butantan, 54, 53 - 59.