Jiboinha

distribution

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil (Plt. 366 A). Widespread in the Atlantic Forest and its contact area with the Cerrado and Caatinga (Plt. 366 A), mostly at intermediate to high elevations (Plt. 366 B). Observed in the field in forest and disturbed areas (Sazima and Puorto, 1993; Barbo, 2008; Guedes et al., 2014).

Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna

Tropidodryas striaticeps (Cope 1869) Cope 1869

Tropidodryas striaticeps (Cope, 1869) (Figs. 20.1 and 32.3) Recorded in the states Bahia and Minas Gerais. It is distributed from lower areas below 500 m in Atlantic Forest contact to highlands on the eastern portion of the Caatinga. It is also recorded in the Atlantic Forest region (Guedes & Marques 2011). It apparently inhabits arboreal and bushy caatinga (semi-arid lowands) to humid forest next to Atlantic Forest and in relictual highland forests (Handam & Lira-da-Silva 2007; Guedes & Marques 2011). It was said to occur in cerrado and arboreal caatinga in highlands of the Diamantina Plateau (Freitas & Silva 2007) . It has semi-arboreal habits, is diurnal and feeds on lizards and mammals (Marques et al. 2001).

Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil