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

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.6125607
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358-FFE4-FFF0-FF09-FBE1FE101660
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Apostolepis arenaria Rodrigues, 1992
status

Treatment

Apostolepis arenaria Rodrigues, 1992 View in CoL

(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).

References

Copyright notice

No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.

Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Reptilia
Order	Squamata
Family	Colubridae
Genus	Apostolepis

Specimens

Downloads & Links

GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF

Version History

Contribution History

Report Problem

Create Feedback Ticket