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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyColubridae
  5. ›genusApostolepis
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Mato Grosso Burrowing Snake

Apostolepis intermedia Koslowsky, 1898

Also calledCobrinha-da-Terra (por) · Средний апостолепис (rus)

First described in: Koslowsky, J. Ofidios de Matto-Grosso (Brazil).

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

distribution

Distribution. Known from Brazil and Paraguay (Plt. 242 A). In Brazil, restricted to the southwestern portion of the Cerrado (Plt. 242 A), mostly at low elevations (Plt. 242 B). Observed in open savanna (Entiauspe-Neto 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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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2458344.