Erythrolamprus mossoroensis

(Hoge and Lima-Verde, 1973)

Type locality. Mossoró, state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil .

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil (Plt. 379A). Widespread in the Caatinga, with marginal records in the Cerrado and Atlantic Forest south of the Amazon (Plt. 379A), at low to intermediate elevations (Plt. 379B). Previous map and taxonomy in Dixon (1989). Observed in the field in open, xeric vegetation, including herbaceous, arboreal, and bushy caatinga (Vanzolini et al., 1980; Dixon, 1989; Guedes et al., 2014).