Oxyrhopus guibei Hoge and Romano 1978

Main Authors: Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V.
Format: info publication-taxonomictreatment Journal
Terbitan: , 2014
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Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6125683
Daftar Isi:
  • Oxyrhopus guibei Hoge and Romano, 1978 “Falsa-coral” (Figs. 16.5 and 29.2) We have few records of this species in Bahia State, municipalities of Mucugê and Rio de Contas. These areas are located above 800 m elevation. It is also distributed in Atlantic Forest and Cerrado (Marques et al. 2001; Sawaya et al. 2008; Nogueira et al. 2010). The records inside the Caatinga are on Diamantina Plateau, with a complex mosaic of vegetation cover that includes phytophysiognomies of caatinga, cerrado, and humid and dry forests. It has terrestrial habits, is nocturnal, and feeds on mammals and lizards (Marques et al. 2001).
  • Published as part of Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano & Marques, Otavio A. V., 2014, Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil, pp. 1-93 in Zootaxa 3863 (1) on page 44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/287111