Crown Ground Snake
Erythrolamprus viridis (Günther, 1862)
Also calledCobra-D’água (por) · Cobra-Verde (por) · Cobra-Verde-da-Caatinga (por)
First described in: Günther, & Albert. On new species of snakes in the collection of the British Museum.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution. Endemic to Brazil (Plt. 389 A), recorded in the Caatinga and its contact areas with the Cerrado and Atlantic Forest (Plt. 389 A), mostly at low to intermediate elevations (Plt. 389 B). Previous map and taxonomy in Dixon (1985, 1989). Observed in the field in dry forest, xeric scrub, and rock outcrops in the Caatinga (Guedes et al., 2014).
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
Erythrolamprus viridis Gunther 1862
Erythrolamprus viridis Günther, 1862 “Cobra-verde” (Figs. 15.4 and 28.1) Caatinga endemic species. It is distributed in all states in the Caatinga. Most records are in low altitudes, with a few exceeding 500 m elevation in mountain ranges of the Ceará State. It inhabits all kinds of Caatinga vegetation. The species has terrestrial habits, is diurnal, and feeds on frogs (Vanzolini et al. 1980; Guedes 2006).
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 9420488.