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Gomes' Burrowing Snake
Apostolepis cearensis Gomes, 1915
Also calledCobra-Rainha (por) · Cobra-de-Ferrão (por) · Cobra-de-Ferrão, Cobra-Rainha, Coral-Falsa, Coralz (por) · Coral-Falsa (por) · Coralzinha (por) · Falsa-Coral (por)
First described in: Gomes, J. F. Contribuição para o conhecimento dos ophidios do Brasil. 1. Descrição de quatro especies novas e um novo Gênero de opisthóglyphos. 2. Ophidios do Museu Rocha (Ceará).
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution. Endemic to Brazil (Plt. 235 A). Widespread in the Caatinga with marginal occurrences in the Atlantic Forest, Amazonia, and Cerrado (Plt. 235 A), from low to high elevations (Plt. 235 B). Observed in the field in open areas associated with dry vegetation and disturbed areas (Ferrarezzi et al., 2005; Guedes et al., 2014).
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
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Type locality. Uncertain locality in the state of Ceará, Brazil.
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
Apostolepis cearensis Gomes 1915
Apostolepis cearensis Gomes, 1915 “Cobra-de-ferrão, cobra-rainha” (Figs. 13.6 and 26.2) Caatinga endemic species. It has a wide range in the Caatinga, including the states of Piauí, Ceará, Paraíba, Alagoas, and Bahia. Most records are in lowlands, covered with semi-arid Caatinga, with a few isolated records in higher areas. Not recorded in the states of Rio Grande do Norte and Pernambuco, perhaps as a result of sampling gaps. It inhabits herbaceous, bushy and arboreal caatinga, and moist forest with sandy soils. It is the most common species of the genus in the Caatinga. It has fossorial and psammophylous habits, is diurnal and nocturnal, and feeds on elongated vertebrates (Ferrarezzi et al. 2005).
Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2458314.