Micrurus frontalis (Duméril, Bibron and Duméril, 1854), Dumeril, Bibron and Dumeril, 1854

Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano & Marques, Otavio A. V., 2014, Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil, Zootaxa 3863 (1), pp. 1-93 : 27

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A683CABE-4305-47A4-A063-03FDF93182C0

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6125551

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358-FFDC-FFC8-FF09-FB8CFBA7167B

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Plazi

scientific name

Micrurus frontalis (Duméril, Bibron and Duméril, 1854)
status

 

Micrurus frontalis (Duméril, Bibron and Duméril, 1854) “Cobra-de-coral, Coral-da-legítima”

(Figs. 11.1 and 23.3)

First record for the Caatinga. This species is known in the Caatinga from only one specimen from Bahia State, municipality of Barreiras, in the contact zone between Caatinga and Cerrado. It was found in lowland areas, 452 m elevation. It also occurs in Atlantic Forest, Cerrado, and Pantanal ( Marques et al. 2005; Zaher et al. 2009; Nogueira et al. 2010, 2011). Its occurrence was expected in the Caatinga, and Vanzolini et al. (1980) mentioned the possible record of this species for Caatinga from Minas Gerais. Therefore, It can be recorded in other areas in Caatinga- Cerrado contact and in relictual savannas in highlands. The species has fossorial habits, is nocturnal and diurnal, and feeds mostly on elongated vertebrates ( Marques et al. 2005; Sawaya et al. 2008).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Elapidae

Genus

Micrurus

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