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Oxyrhopus
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Oxyrhopus sp. “Falsa-coral”
(Figs. 16.8 and 29.2)
Recorded only in Ibiapaba-Araripe Plateau, Ceará State. It occurs in highlands, altitude above 600 m elevation, in moist relictual forests (Loebmann & Haddad 2010; Ribeiro et al. 2012). The species has terrestrial habits, is nocturnal, and feeds on mammals and lizards.
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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 45, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/287111
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- Loebmann, D. & Haddad, C. F. B. (2010) Amphibians and reptiles from a highly diverse area of the Caatinga domain: composition and conservation implications. Biota Neotropica, 10, 227 - 256. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1590 / S 1676 - 06032010000300026
- Ribeiro, S. C., Roberto, I. J., Sales, D. L., Avila, R. W. & Almeida, W. O. (2012) Amphibians and reptiles from the Araripe bioregion northeastern Brazil. Salamandra, 48, 133 - 146.