Central Burrowing Snake
Apostolepis flavotorquata (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854)
Also calledCobra-da-terrra (por) · Falsa-coral (por) · Жёлтопоясный апостолепис (rus)
First described in: Duméril, A. M. C., Bibron, G. & Duméril, A. H. A.,. Erpétologie générale ou histoire naturelle complète des reptiles. Tome septième. Deuxième partie, comprenant l’histoire des serpents venimeux.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution. Endemic to Brazil (Plt. 239 A), widespread in the Cerrado and its contact with Amazonia (Plt. 239 A), from intermediate to high elevations (Plt. 239 B). Observed in the field in dry forest (FranÇa and Araújo, 2006).
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
materials_examined
Type locality. “ L’íntérieur de l’Amérique meridional, ” restricted to Goiás state, Brazil (Lema and Renner, 2005).
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2458319.