Apostolepis arenaria Rodrigues, 1992

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 : 35

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).