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De Lema's Ground Snake
Apostolepis thalesdelemai Borges-Nojosa, Lima, Bezerra & James, 2016
Also calledFalsa-Coral, Cobra-da-Terra (por)
First described in: Borges-Nojosa, Diva Maria, Daniel Cassiano Lima, Castiele Holanda Bezerra, and David James Harris, 2016: Two new species of Apostolepis Cope, 1862 (Serpentes: Elapomorphini) from brejos de altitude in northeastern Brazil. Revista Nordestina de Zoologia, vol. 10, no. 2. 74-94.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution. Endemic to Brazil (Plt. 258 A). Recorded in the northern portion of the Caatinga (Plt. 258 A) at intermediate to high elevations (Plt. 258 B). Observed in the field in upland forest (Borges-Nojosa et al., 2017).
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
materials_examined
Type locality. Murimbeca, Planalto da Ibiapaba, Ubajara, state of Ceará, Brazil.
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
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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In the stacks
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Every page naming Apostolepis thalesdelemai in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 9595249.