Rodriguesophis chui Rodrigues, 1993

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 : 48

Rodriguesophis chui Rodrigues, 1993

(Figs. 18.2 and 31.1)

Caatinga endemic species. It is known only from the type-locality, Santo Inácio village in municipality of Gentio do Ouro, Bahia State. The area has 475 m elevation. It has a restricted distribution on sandy dunes of the right bank of the São Francisco, covered with 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).