Guibe's False Coral Snake
Oxyrhopus guibei Hoge & Romano, 1977
Also calledCobra-Coral (por) · Cobra-Corá (por) · Coral (por) · Coral-Falsa (por) · Falsa coral oscura (spa) · Falsa-Coral (por) · Parana-calicosnog (dan)
First described in: Hoge, A. R., & Romano, S. DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SUBSP. OF OXYRHOPUS WAG-LER. [SERPENTES: COLUBRIDAE].
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distribution
Distribution. Known from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay (Plt. 319 A). In Brazil, widespread in the Cerrado and Atlantic Forest, with isolated records in the Caatinga and Amazonia (Plt. 319 A), from low to high elevations (Plt. 319 B). Previous maps and taxonomy in Zaher and Caramaschi (1992). Observed in the field in forest, gallery forest edges, savanna, and disturbed urban areas (Martins and Oliveira, 1998; Martins et al., 2008 b; Sawaya et al., 2008; Nogueira et al., 2010; Barbo et al., 2011).
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
Oxyrhopus guibei Hoge and Romano 1978
Oxyrhopus guibei Hoge and Romano, 1978 “Falsa-coral” (Figs. 16.5 and 29.2) We have few records of this species in Bahia State, municipalities of Mucugê and Rio de Contas. These areas are located above 800 m elevation. It is also distributed in Atlantic Forest and Cerrado (Marques et al. 2001; Sawaya et al. 2008; Nogueira et al. 2010). The records inside the Caatinga are on Diamantina Plateau, with a complex mosaic of vegetation cover that includes phytophysiognomies of caatinga, cerrado, and humid and dry forests. It has terrestrial habits, is nocturnal, and feeds on mammals and lizards (Marques et al. 2001).
Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil
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