Maryellen's Ground Snake
Erythrolamprus maryellenae (Dixon, 1985)
Also calledCobra-Capim (por) · Cobra-D’água (por) · Cobra-Verde (por) · Goias-glatsnog (dan) · Parelheira (por)
First described in: Dixon J R. A new species of the colubrid snake genus Liophis from Brazil.
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distribution
Distribution. Endemic to Brazil (Plt. 377 A). Recorded in the Cerrado and its contact areas with the Atlantic Forest, and isolated records in upland savanna enclaves in the Caatinga (Plt. 377 A), mostly at high elevations (Plt. 377 B). Previous map and taxonomy in Dixon (1989). Observed in the field in wet grassland, grassland, savanna, and gallery forest (Cassimiro and Bertoluci, 2003; Vaz-Silva et al., 2007; Cintra et al., 2009, Valdujo et al., 2009).
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Erythrolamprus maryellenae Dixon 1985
Erythrolamprus maryellenae Dixon, 1985 (Figs. 14.7 and 27.2) Recorded at a single locality in the Diamantina Plateau, municipality of Mucugê, Bahia State, 983 m elevation. It was previously known only in the Cerrado region and is considered endemic to this domain, found mostly in riparian, open areas (Nogueira et al. 2010). Its presence in our study region seems to be restricted to campos rupestres and other cerrado associated grasslands in isolated highlands inside the Caatinga. It has terrestrial and semi aquatic habits, is diurnal, and feeds on vertebrates (Dixon 1989, França et al. 2008).
Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 9316719.