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GBIF·9729181speciesAnimalia5 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyColubridae
  5. ›genusApostolepis
Apostolepis kikoi
(photos 2, by Marcos Di Bernardo) dos Santos FM, Entiauspe-Neto OM, Araújo JS, de Souza MB (CC BY 4.0) · Wikimedia Commons. Found by name on iNaturalist, Wikimedia Commons and in the open-access papers that described the species (Plazi); click a picture for its credit and licence.
IUCN NE · Not evaluated

Apostolepis kikoi

Apostolepis kikoi Santos, Entiauspe-Neto, Silva-Araújo, Souza, Lema, Strüssmann & Albuquerque, 2018

Also calledFalsa-Coral (por)

First described in: Santos, Fernanda M. D., Omar M. Entiauspe-Neto, Jailini D. S. Araújo, Moisés B. De Souza, Thales De Lema, Christine Strüssmann & Nelson R. De Albuquerque. 2018. A new species of burrowing snake (Serpentes: Dipsadidae: Apostolepis) from the state of Mato Grosso, Central-West region of Brazil. Zoologia 35: 1-10.

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

distribution

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil (Plt. 243 A), recorded only from the type locality in the northwestern portion of the Cerrado (Plt. 243 A) at intermediate elevations near Chapada dos Guimarães Plateau (Plt. 243 B). No detailed field data on habitat use are available for this species.

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

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Type locality. Manso hydroelectric power plant, Chapada dos Guimarães, state of Mato Grosso, Brazil.

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

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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 9729181.