Rodriguesophis scriptorcibatus 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

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scientific name	Rodriguesophis scriptorcibatus Rodrigues, 1993
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(Figs. 18.4 and 31.1)

Caatinga endemic species. Known only from the type-locality Ibiraba village municipality of Barra, in Bahia State, on the left bank of the São Francisco river, 410 m elevation. It was recorded in an area covered with on 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).

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Taxonomy

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

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