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  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyColubridae
  5. ›genusApostolepis
Apostolepis goiasensis
Otavio A Marques (CC BY 4.0) · Wikimedia Commons. Found by name on iNaturalist, Wikimedia Commons and in the open-access papers that described the species (Plazi); click a picture for its credit and licence.
IUCN LC · Least concern

Goias Burrowing Snake

Apostolepis goiasensis Prado, 1942

Also calledFalsa-Coral (por)

First described in: Prado, & Alcides. Notas ofiológicas. 14. Comentários acerca de algumas serpentes opistóglifas do gênero Apostolepis, com a descripção de uma nova espécie.

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

distribution

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil (Plt. 241 A). Restricted to the Cerrado (Plt. 241 A), mostly at high elevations (Fig. 241 B). Observed in the field in savanna on sandy soils (Dalmolin, 2000).

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 2458339.