Micrurus brasiliensis Roze, 1967

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

Micrurus brasiliensis Roze, 1967 “Cobra-de-coral, Coral-da-legítima”

(Figs. 10.8 and 23.3)

It was recorded in only two localities on Bahia and Minas Gerais States, close to the contact with the Cerrado region. It was found from 452 to 630 m elevation. This snake is endemic and widely distributed in the Cerrado region (Nogueira et al. 2011) and may be found in savanna enclaves inside Caatinga-Cerrado contact. It has fossorial habits, is nocturnal and diurnal, and feeds mostly on elongated vertebrates ( Marques et al. 2001).