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Rodriguesophis scriptorcibatus Rodrigues 1993
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Rodriguesophis scriptorcibatus Rodrigues, 1993
(Figs. 18.4 and 31.1)
Caatinga endemic species. Known only from the type-locality Ibiraba village municipality of Barra, in Bahia State, on the left bank of the São Francisco river, 410 m elevation. It was recorded in an area covered with on herbaceous and bushy caatinga on sandy soils (Rodrigues 1993). It has fossorial and psamophylous habits, is diurnal and nocturnal, and feeds on lizards (Rodrigues 1993).
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 48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/287111
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Rodrigues
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Colubridae
- Genus
- Rodriguesophis
- Species
- scriptorcibatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rodriguesophis scriptorcibatus Rodrigues, 1993 sec. Guedes, Nogueira & Marques, 2014
References
- Rodrigues, M. T. (1993) Herpetofauna of paleoquaternary sand dunes of the middle Sao Francisco River: Bahia: Brazil. VI. Two new species of the Phimophis (Serpentes: Colubridae) with notes on the origin of psammophilic adaptations. Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia, 38, 187 - 198.