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Hawbeack Blackhead
Apostolepis polylepis Amaral, 1922
Also calledFalsa-Coral (por)
First described in: Amaral, & Do, A. Contribuicao para o conhecimento dos ofidios do Brazil. Parte i Quatro noves espécies de serpentes brasileires.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution. Endemic to Brazil (Plt. 251 A), restricted to the northeastern portion of the Cerrado (Plt. 251 A) at low to intermediate elevations (Plt. 251 B). Observed in the field in open savanna and grassland on sandy soils (Nogueira et al., 2011; Recoder et al., 2011).
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
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Type locality. Village of Engenheiro Dodt, currently Santa Filomena, state of Piauí, Brazil.
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 2458347.