Brazilian Burrowing Snake
Gomesophis brasiliensis (Gomes, 1918)
Also calledCobra-Bola (por) · Cobra-Buraqueira (por) · Cobra-D’água (por) · Cobra-do-Lodo (por) · Бразильский гомезофив (rus)
First described in: Gomes, J. F. Contribuição para o conhecimento dos ofidios do Brasil. III (1).
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution. Endemic to Brazil (Plt. 349 A). Recorded in Araucaria Forest, Atlantic Forest, and adjacent Pampas Grasslands, with isolated records in Cerrado (Plt. 349 A), often at high elevations (Plt. 349 B). Found in grasslands and wetlands (Lema, 2002; FranÇa and Araújo, 2006).
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
distribution
Distribution and habitat. This species occurs in natural field areas (Amaral 1977, Ghizoni-Jr et al. 2009) in southern and southeastern Brazil (Minas Gerais, Parana, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, and Sao Paulo) (Gonzalez et al. 2014).
Composition and natural history of the snakes from the Parque Estadual da Serra do Papagaio, southern Minas Gerais, Serra da Mantiqueira, Brazil
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2458622.