identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
465F3358FFD7FFC3FF09FF63FC6E1185.text	465F3358FFD7FFC3FF09FF63FC6E1185.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Anilius scytale (Linnaeus 1758) Linnaeus 1758	<div><p>Anilius scytale (Linnaeus, 1758) “Falsa-coral”</p><p>(Figs. 8.1 and 21.1)</p><p>The single record of this species for the Caatinga region is in the municipality of Crato, Araripe Plateau, Ceará State, 426 m elevation. It is widely distributed in Amazonia (Cunha &amp; Nascimento 1978; Martins &amp; Oliveira 1998; Maschio et al. 2010), with marginal records in the northern portion of the Cerrado region (Nogueira et al. 2010, 2011). We have no information on habitat use in the Caatinga, but this snake is a typical of humid, wet forested areas in Amazonia (Cunha &amp; Nascimento 1978; Martins &amp; Oliveira 1998; Maschio et al. 2010), extending through gallery forests in the northern portion of the Cerrado (Nogueira et al. 2010, 2011). Thus, this species would be probably associated with relictual humid forest enclaves within Caatinga highlands, as mentioned by Ribeiro et al. (2012). The species has fossorial habits, is nocturnal and diurnal, and feeds mostly on elongated vertebrates (Cunha &amp; Nascimento 1978; Martins &amp; Oliveira 1998; Maschio et al. 2010).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFD7FFC3FF09FF63FC6E1185	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFD7FFC3FF09FAC2FEE715E5.text	465F3358FFD7FFC3FF09FAC2FEE715E5.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Epictia borapeliotes (Vanzolini 1996) Vanzolini 1996	<div><p>Epictia borapeliotes (Vanzolini, 1996) “Cobra-de-chumbinho”</p><p>(Figs. 8.3 and 21.2)</p><p>Caatinga endemic species. Occurs in the states of Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe, and Bahia. Most records are from lowland areas from sea level to 500 m maximum elevation, covered with open vegetation including bushy caatinga, arboreal caatinga, and herbaceous caatinga on sandy soils. It was also recently recorded in a Cerrado enclave in Mucugê, Diamantina Plateau, 938 m elevation (Freitas et al. 2012a). Five records of this species were also observed near the coast (TBG pers. obs.) in municipalities of Natal (Rio Grande do Norte State) and João Pessoa (Paraíba State). Apparently, it has a wide tolerance to variations in humidity levels, which allows its occurrence both in semi arid Caatinga and near wetter coastal areas (Vanzolini 1996b). It has fossorial habits, is nocturnal and diurnal, and feeds mostly on arthropods (Vanzolini 1996b; TBG pers. obs.).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFD7FFC3FF09FAC2FEE715E5	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFD7FFC3FF09FCDCFE1717B3.text	465F3358FFD7FFC3FF09FCDCFE1717B3.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Liotyphlops ternetzii (Boulenger 1896) Boulenger 1896	<div><p>Liotyphlops cf. ternetzii (Boulenger, 1896) “Cobra-cega”</p><p>(Figs. 8.2 and 21.1)</p><p>Only one specimen, recorded in state of Ceará, Parque Nacional de Ubajara, Ibiapaba-Araripe Plateau, 519 m elevation. The nominal species L. ternetzii is widespread along central Brazilian Cerrado (Nogueira et al. 2010, 2011). The single specimen was collected in arboreal caatinga next to a river on red-yellow latosols (Loebmann 2009; Loebmann &amp; Haddad 2010), but we believe its presence in the Caatinga may be associated to elevated plateaus with cerrado vegetation. The species has fossorial habits, is nocturnal, and feeds mostly on arthropods (Parpinelli &amp; Marques 2008).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFD7FFC3FF09FCDCFE1717B3	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFD4FFC0FF09FF19FC3812A5.text	465F3358FFD4FFC0FF09FF19FC3812A5.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Epictia	<div><p>Epictia sp. “Cobra-de-chumbinho”</p><p>(Fig. 21.1)</p><p>Only one specimen was recorded. It was collected in the highlands of the Diamantina Plateau complex Bahia State, 538 m elevation. This area includes all phytophisiognomies of caatinga, cerrado vegetation, and humid forested areas. This region is covered mostly by evergreen vegetation due to numerous headwaters of the Rio Itapicurú drainage. However, no detailed information on habitat use is available for this species. It has fossorial habits, is nocturnal and diurnal, and feeds mostly on arthropods (Vanzolini 1996b).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFD4FFC0FF09FF19FC3812A5	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFD4FFC0FF09FD8CFCE01043.text	465F3358FFD4FFC0FF09FD8CFCE01043.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Trilepida brasiliensis (Laurent 1949) Laurent 1949	<div><p>Trilepida brasiliensis (Laurent, 1949) “Cobra-de-chumbinho”</p><p>(Figs. 8.4 and 21.2)</p><p>Recorded in the states of Ceará, Paraíba, and Bahia. Widely distributed in central Brazilian highlands, ranging from 500 to 717 m elevation, and also recorded marginally in Caatinga lowlands (452 m elevation) in Barreiras, Bahia State. It is considered widely distributed in Cerrado (Curcio et al. 2002; Nogueira et al. 2010; Pinto &amp; Curcio 2011), associated to savannas over sandy soils (Vitt et al. 2002). It inhabits portions of cerrado in highlands inside Caatinga (Borges-Nojosa et al. 2009). The species has fossorial habits, is nocturnal and diurnal, and feeds mostly on arthropods (Curcio et al. 2002; Pinto &amp; Curcio 2011).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFD4FFC0FF09FD8CFCE01043	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFD4FFC0FF09FC29FB8417F8.text	465F3358FFD4FFC0FF09FC29FB8417F8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Trilepida koppesi (Amaral 1955) Amaral 1955	<div><p>Trilepida koppesi (Amaral, 1955) “Cobra-de-chumbinho”</p><p>(Figs. 8.5 and 21.1)</p><p>Recorded only in the state of Bahia, district of Cascavel, municipality of Mucugê (Freitas et al. 2012a). The area is situated in a flat upland area, above 1,100 m elevation, in a section of the Diamantina Plateau covered by forested areas along river valleys and cerrado woodlands (locally known as carrasco) on drier sites (Freitas &amp; Silva 2007; Freitas et al. 2012a). It is widely distributed along the Cerrado (Recoder &amp; Nogueira 2007; Sawaya et al. 2008; Valdujo et al. 2009; Nogueira et al. 2010) and Pantanal (Pinto &amp; Curcio 2011). It has fossorial habits, is nocturnal and diurnal, and feeds mostly on arthropods (Sawaya et al. 2008; Pinto &amp; Curcio 2011).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFD4FFC0FF09FC29FB8417F8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFD4FFC0FF09FA0CFF1515C3.text	465F3358FFD4FFC0FF09FA0CFF1515C3.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Typhlops amoipira Rodrigues and Junca 2002	<div><p>Typhlops amoipira Rodrigues and Juncá, 2002 “Cobra-cega”</p><p>(Figs. 8.6 and 21.3)</p><p>Caatinga endemic species. Known from only two records, in the states of Bahia and Minas Gerais. It is distributed in areas with between 553 and 629 m elevation. Inhabits bushy and herbaceous caatinga with bromeliads and clumps of grasses on sandy soils (Rodrigues &amp; Juncá 2002), along the São Francisco sandy dunes. It also occurs in cerrado sensu stricto with sandy soils, dissected by veredas and riparian forests (Fernandes et al. 2010). It has fossorial and psammophylous habits, is nocturnal and diurnal, and feeds mostly on arthropods (Rodrigues &amp; Juncá 2002).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFD4FFC0FF09FA0CFF1515C3	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFD2FFC6FF09F9A9FDE614FC.text	465F3358FFD2FFC6FF09F9A9FDE614FC.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Boa constrictor Linnaeus 1758	<div><p>Boa constrictor Linnaeus, 1758 “Cobra-de-veado, Salamanta-boi, Jibóia”</p><p>(Figs. 9.2 and 21.4)</p><p>It occurs in all portions of the Caatinga, from sea level to 750 m elevation. There are no records from central region of the state of Bahia (e.g. municipalities of Jacobina, Seabra, Mundo Novo, Iramaia, Boninal, and Barra do Mendes) probably due to lack of sampling. It is recorded in many other Brazilian natural regions, such as the Atlantic Forest, Amazon Forest, Cerrado, and Pantanal (Cunha &amp; Nascimento 1978; Strüssmann &amp; Sazima 1993; Martins &amp; Oliveira 1998; Marques et al. 2001; Argôlo 2004; Marques et al. 2005; Sawaya et al. 2008; Nogueira et al. 2010). It inhabits all habitats within the Caatinga, including typical caatinga, cerrado formations, caatinga on dunes, and forested areas. The wide range in the Caatinga is in accordance with its wide occurrence in most natural regions of Brazil (Martins &amp; Oliveira 1998; Cechin 1999; Marques et al. 2001; Lema 2002a; Marques et al. 2005; Bérnils et al. 2008; Nogueira et al. 2010, 2011). It has semi-arboreal habits, is nocturnal and diurnal, and feeds on vertebrates (Marques et al. 2001).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFD2FFC6FF09F9A9FDE614FC	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFD2FFC6FF09FF19FCFB114C.text	465F3358FFD2FFC6FF09FF19FCFB114C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Typhlops brongersmianus Vanzolini 1976	<div><p>Typhlops brongersmianus Vanzolini, 1976 “Cobra-cega”</p><p>(Figs. 8.7 and 21.3)</p><p>Recorded only in the state of Sergipe, next to Parque Nacional Serra de Itabaiana, and in Ceará on the Ibiapaba- Araripe Plateau. It occurs from sea level to 847 m elevation in the Caatinga. It is widely distributed, recorded in the Atlantic Forest, Amazon, Cerrado, Pantanal, and Pampas (Martins &amp; Oliveira 1998; Cechin 1999; Marques et al. 2001; Marques et al. 2005; Bérnils et al. 2008; Recoder &amp; Nogueira 2007; Sawaya et al. 2008; Valdujo et al. 2009; Nogueira et al. 2010). Occurs in moist forested area in Ceará (Loebmann &amp; Haddad 2010) and can also be found in open areas of bushy and arboreal caatinga on sandy soil, but with strong influence of adjacent Atlantic Forest in Sergipe (Carvalho &amp; Vilar 2005). Records in the Cerrado region are mostly associated to riparian forests and sandy soils (Nogueira et al. 2011; Recoder et al. 2011). The single record in Caatinga lowlands was in a hydroelectric plant area in Alagoas State, dominated by xerophitic caatinga vegetation. It has fossorial habits, is nocturnal, and feeds mostly on arthropods (Marques et al. 2001, 2005).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFD2FFC6FF09FF19FCFB114C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFD2FFC6FF09FD33FE481721.text	465F3358FFD2FFC6FF09FD33FE481721.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Typhlops reticulatus (Linnaeus 1758) Linnaeus 1758	<div><p>Typhlops reticulatus (Linnaeus, 1758) “Cobra-cega”</p><p>(Figs. 8.8 and 21.3)</p><p>The single record of this species in the Caatinga was obtained in state of Ceará (Dixon &amp; Hendricks 1979), municipality of Limoeiro do Norte, 30 m elevation. This area has arboreal caatinga, bushy caatinga, and herbaceous caatinga. It was also known in the Amazon Forest (Cunha &amp; Nascimento 1978; Martins &amp; Oliveira 1998). We have no information on habitat use in the Caatinga, but this snake is a typical of humid, wet forested areas in Amazonia (Cunha &amp; Nascimento 1978; Martins &amp; Oliveira 1998; Maschio et al. 2010). Thus, its ocurrence would be probably associated to relictual forested enclaves within Caatinga highlands. It has fossorial habits, is nocturnal and diurnal, and feeds mostly on arthropods (Cunha &amp; Nascimento 1978; Dixon &amp; Hendricks 1979; Martins &amp; Oliveira 1998).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFD2FFC6FF09FD33FE481721	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFD2FFC6FF09FB04FBB1168B.text	465F3358FFD2FFC6FF09FB04FBB1168B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Typhlops yonenagae Rodrigues 1991	<div><p>Typhlops yonenagae Rodrigues, 1991 “Cobra-cega”</p><p>(Figs. 9.1 and 21.3)</p><p>Caatinga endemic, range restricted species. Recorded only in the type-locality, Santo Inácio village, municipality of Gentio do Ouro, Bahia State, on the right bank of São Francisco River (Rodrigues &amp; Juncá 2002), 475 m elevation. The vegetation is xerophytic with bushy caatinga growing over rocky outcrops, inselbergs, red latosols or stony and sandy soils (Rodrigues 1991a; Rodrigues &amp; Juncá 2002). It has fossorial and psammophylous habits, is nocturnal and diurnal, and feeds mostly on arthropods (Rodrigues &amp; Juncá 2002).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFD2FFC6FF09FB04FBB1168B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFD0FFC5FF09F8F5FB7C13EB.text	465F3358FFD0FFC5FF09F8F5FB7C13EB.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Bothrops atrox (Linnaeus 1758) Linnaeus 1758	<div><p>Bothrops aff. atrox (Linnaeus, 1758) “ Jararaca ”</p><p>(Figs. 9.7 and 23.1)</p><p>Recorded only in few localities in the state of Ceará. It occurs in altitudes above 600 m elevation. As other pitvipers of the Bothrops atrox complex, it occurs in moist forested areas, in relictual plateaus (Loebmann &amp; Haddad 2010) in Ceará State. It is very common in slopes in riparian forest of near streams that descend from the plateau, in Crato (CN pers. obs.). It has terrestrial habits, is nocturnal, and feeds mostly on small mammals.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFD0FFC5FF09F8F5FB7C13EB	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFD0FFC4FF09FF19FA6312DC.text	465F3358FFD0FFC4FF09FF19FA6312DC.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Corallus hortulanus (Linnaeus 1758) Linnaeus 1758	<div><p>Corallus hortulanus (Linnaeus, 1758) “Cobra-veadeira”</p><p>(Figs. 9.3 and 22.1)</p><p>It occurs in states of Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Alagoas, Bahia, and Minas Gerais. It was recorded up to 847 m elevation. We detected many sampling gaps including Pernambuco, Paraíba, and Sergipe States. It occurs also in Atlantic Forest, Amazon, Cerrado, and Pantanal (Cunha &amp; Nascimento 1978; Strüssmann &amp; Sazima 1993; Martins &amp; Oliveira 1998; Marques et al. 2001; Argôlo 2004; Marques et al. 2005; Sawaya et al. 2008; Nogueira et al. 2010). Although it is an exclusively arboreal species (Henderson 1997; Marques et al. 2001) it seems to inhabit all phytophisiognomies of the Caatinga. It is nocturnal and diurnal, and feeds on vertebrates (Marques et al. 2001).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFD0FFC4FF09FF19FA6312DC	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFD0FFC4FF09FDA3FE331049.text	465F3358FFD0FFC4FF09FDA3FE331049.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Epicrates assisi Machado 1945	<div><p>Epicrates assisi Machado, 1945 “Salamanta, Cobra-arco-íris”</p><p>(Figs. 9.4 and 22.2)</p><p>Caatinga endemic species. There are records for this species in all portions of the Caatinga. It is distributed in areas from sea level to 983 m elevation. It inhabits all phytophisiognomies of the Caatinga and was recorded recently also in the Atlantic Forest domain near the coast, perhaps as a result of secondary dispersion due to the deforestation of these areas (P. Passos, pers. comm.). It is simpatric with E. crassus in north Minas Gerais, in the Cerrado-Caatinga contact area (Passos &amp; Fernandes 2008). It has semi-arboreal habits, is nocturnal, and feeds on vertebrates (Guedes 2006).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFD0FFC4FF09FDA3FE331049	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFD0FFC4FF09FC23FDE617ED.text	465F3358FFD0FFC4FF09FC23FDE617ED.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Epicrates crassus Cope 1862	<div><p>Epicrates crassus Cope, 1862 “Salamanta, Cobra-arco-íris”</p><p>(Figs. 9.5 and 22.2)</p><p>Recorded only in northern Minas Gerais, municipalities of Manga and Mato Verde, 440 and 541 m of elevation respectively. These records are located next to the Cerrado contact area, and the vegetation of this area is bushy and arboreal caatinga in contact with cerrado savannas. This species is considered a Cerrado endemic species (Nogueira et al. 2010, 2011), with wide distribution in central Brazilian open areas (Passos &amp; Fernandes 2008; Recoder et al. 2011). We do not exclude possible future records for other localities along the Caatinga-Cerrado contact zone, in the states of Bahia, Piauí, and Maranhão. It has semi-arboreal habits, is nocturnal, and feeds on vertebrates (Marques et al. 2005).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFD0FFC4FF09FC23FDE617ED	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFD0FFC4FF09FAC7FD8D15F6.text	465F3358FFD0FFC4FF09FAC7FD8D15F6.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Eunectes murinus (Linnaeus 1758) Linnaeus 1758	<div><p>Eunectes murinus (Linnaeus, 1758) “Sucurí”</p><p>(Figs. 9.6 and 22.1)</p><p>It was recorded from a single site in the Caatinga, in the municipality of Aquiraz, northern portion of Ceará State (Mendonça et al. 2009), 14 m elevation. It is widely distributed in the Atlantic Forest, Amazon, Cerrado, and Pantanal (Cunha &amp; Nascimento 1978; Strüssmann &amp; Sazima 1993; Martins &amp; Oliveira 1998; Marques et al. 2001; Argôlo 2004; Marques et al. 2005; Sawaya et al. 2008; Nogueira et al. 2010). The area of occurrence in the Caatinga is adjacent to coastal areas with high humidity. According to Freitas and Silva (2007), it can also be found near São Francisco, Paraguaçú, Itapicuru, Contas, and Jequitinhonha Rivers in Bahia state, but this information could not be confirmed herein due to lack of voucher specimens. It is a typical riparian species, found associated to floodlands and lentic water bodies, often on lowlands. It has semi-aquatic habits, is nocturnal and diurnal, and feeds on vertebrates (Marques et al. 2005).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFD0FFC4FF09FAC7FD8D15F6	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFD1FFC5FF09FECDFD9011D8.text	465F3358FFD1FFC5FF09FECDFD9011D8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Bothrops erythromelas (Amaral 1923) Amaral 1923	<div><p>Bothrops erythromelas (Amaral, 1923) “Jararaca-da-seca, jararaquinha”</p><p>(Figs. 9.8 and 22.3)</p><p>Caatinga endemic species. It is the single endemic viperid in the Caatinga, being recorded throughout the region. Most records for this species are from low altitude areas, below 600 m elevation, on the semi-arid Caatinga. This is a conspicuous species found in arboreal, bushy, and herbaceous caatinga on yellow-red latosoils with inselbergs and rock outcrops. However, it can be found in contact areas with the northeastern Atlantic Forest, in the states of Rio Grande do Norte (Natal urban area), Paraíba (João Pessoa arban area), Pernambuco (Torre Madalena), and Bahia (Itaparica) (TBG pers. obs.) perhaps as a result of deforestation of these formerly forested areas. It has terrestrial habits, is nocturnal, and feeds on vertebrates and invertebrates (Vanzolini et al. 1980; Vitt &amp; Vangilder 1983; Martins et al. 2002; Guedes 2006).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFD1FFC5FF09FECDFD9011D8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFD1FFC5FF09FC9FFD80178D.text	465F3358FFD1FFC5FF09FC9FFD80178D.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Bothrops jararaca (Wied 1824) Wied 1824	<div><p>Bothrops jararaca (Wied, 1824) “ Jararaca ”</p><p>(Figs. 10.1 and 22.4)</p><p>It was only recorded in high altitude areas (532 to 1,027 m elevation), in, the municipalities of Ibicoara, Palmeiras, Miguel Calmon, and Mucugê, Bahia State (Handam et al. 2007; Freitas et al. 2012a). These localities are all inside the Diamantina Plateau complex. It is also recorded on the Atlantic Forest, Cerrado, and the Pantanal (Strüssmann &amp; Sazima 1993; Marques et al. 2001; Argôlo 2004; Marques et al. 2005; Sawaya et al. 2008). We have no information on habitat use of this snake in Caatinga, but it is probably associated to forested areas as observed throughout its range (Marques et al. 2001; Marques et al. 2005; Barbo et al. 2011; Zaher et al. 2011). It has terrestrial to semi-arboreal habits, is nocturnal, and has a generalist diet, dominated by a wide range of vertebrates (Marques et al. 2001; Martins et al. 2002).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFD1FFC5FF09FC9FFD80178D	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFD1FFC5FF09FB71FEC01580.text	465F3358FFD1FFC5FF09FB71FEC01580.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Bothrops leucurus Wagler 1824	<div><p>Bothrops leucurus Wagler, 1824 “ Jararaca ”</p><p>(Figs. 10.2 and 22.4)</p><p>It was recorded in the states of Alagoas, Pernambuco, Sergipe, and Bahia, generally close to the eastern borders of the Caatinga, along its contact with the Atlantic Forests. It was recorded in low altitude near the Atlantic Forest, but only in highland (750 to 900 m elevation) inside semi-arid caatinga. It occurs throughout the Atlantic Forest of northeastern of Brazil (Argôlo 2004). Inside Caatinga, it can be found on moist forest vegetation and caatinga in high altitudes as described in Juncá (2005), and Filho and Montingelli (2011), and wetter arboreal and bushy caatinga close to the Atlantic Forest. As other members of the atrox species group (Werman 1992), this species is typical of forested habitats (Cunha &amp; Nascimento 1978; Martins &amp; Oliveira 1998; Nogueira et al. 2003; Campbell &amp; Lamar 2004). It has terrestrial habits, is nocturnal, and is a generalized feeder on vertebrates (Martins et al. 2002; Argôlo 2004).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFD1FFC5FF09FB71FEC01580	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFD1FFCAFF09F967FC26120F.text	465F3358FFD1FFCAFF09F967FC26120F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Bothrops lutzi (Miranda-Ribeiro 1915) Miranda-Ribeiro 1915	<div><p>Bothrops lutzi (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1915) “ Jararaca ”</p><p>(Figs. 10.3 and 22.3)</p><p>It was recorded in the western portions of the Caatinga; close to its contact with the Cerrado in the states of Piauí, Ceará, Pernambuco, and Bahia. It occurs in altitudes of 308 to 847 m elevation in areas close to the Cerrado- Caatinga contact, being found only in highlands inside the semi-arid Caatinga. It is recognized as a Cerrado endemic (Nogueira et al. 2010, 2011). Inside the Caatinga, Loebmann and Haddad (2010) mentioned this species in high altitude areas of the Ibiapaba-Araripe Plateau, but apparently this species inhabits mainly relictual savanna vegetation in high altitudes, as it is typical and relatively common in plateau areas covered by cerrado savannas (Recoder &amp; Nogueira 2007; Nogueira et al. 2011; Recoder et al. 2011). It has terrestrial habits, is nocturnal, and feeds montly on mammals (Martins et al. 2002; Silva &amp; Rodrigues 2008).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFD1FFCAFF09F967FC26120F	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFDEFFCAFF09FEF1FF1511B4.text	465F3358FFDEFFCAFF09FEF1FF1511B4.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Bothrops moojeni Hoge 1966	<div><p>Bothrops moojeni Hoge, 1966 “ Jararaca ”</p><p>(Figs. 10.4 and 22.4)</p><p>First record in the Caatinga. This species was recorded only in Bahia and Minas Gerais States. It occurs in altitudes of 440 to 630 m elevation, close to the Cerrado region, to which the species is considered endemic (Nogueira et al. 2011). It is the most conspicuous and widespread viperid snake of the Cerrado region (Melgarejo 2003, Nogueira et al. 2003). It is typical of gallery forests or adjacent riparian habitats in the Cerrado region (Nogueira et al. 2003). It has terrestrial habits, is nocturnal, and is a generalist feeder on vertebrate prey (Martins et al. 2002; Nogueira et al. 2003).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFDEFFCAFF09FEF1FF1511B4	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFDEFFCAFF09FD7BFE881721.text	465F3358FFDEFFCAFF09FD7BFE881721.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Bothrops neuwiedi (Wagler 1824) Wagler 1824	<div><p>Bothrops neuwiedi (Wagler, 1824) “Jararaca-pintada”</p><p>(Figs. 10.5 and 23.1)</p><p>It occurs in the states of Bahia and Minas Gerais. Most records are next to the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado, but there is a unique record in semi-arid caatinga, municipality of Itiúba (Bahia State). All records are between 377 and 760 m elevation. It was previously known to Cerrado and Atlantic Forest (Silva &amp; Rodrigues 2008). Thus, it may be distributed in parts of the caatinga vegetation under influence of both ecoregions. It has terrestrial habits, is nocturnal, and feeds mostly on small mammals (Marques et al. 2001, Martins et al. 2002; Marques et al. 2005; Sawaya et al. 2008).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFDEFFCAFF09FD7BFE881721	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFDEFFCAFF09FB04FB16168B.text	465F3358FFDEFFCAFF09FB04FB16168B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Crotalus durissus (Linnaeus 1758) Linnaeus 1758	<div><p>Crotalus durissus (Linnaeus, 1758) “Cascavel”</p><p>(Figs. 10.6 and 23.2)</p><p>It occurs throughout the Caatinga, from sea level to 1,100 m elevation. It is a typical snake of open areas, with a very wide range along South America. It is also distributed in Cerrado, Pantanal, and Pampas (Cechin 1999; Lema 2002a; Marques et al. 2005; Bérnils et al. 2008; Nogueira et al. 2010). Although it can be found also in forest edges in the Atlantic Forest (TBG pers. obs), in highland areas it was detected only in open caatinga vegetation. It has terrestrial habits, is nocturnal, and feeds mostly on mammals (Marques et al. 2005; Guedes 2006).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFDEFFCAFF09FB04FB16168B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFDEFFCAFF09FA6DFD9E1478.text	465F3358FFDEFFCAFF09FA6DFD9E1478.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Lachesis muta (Linnaeus 1766) Linnaeus 1766	<div><p>Lachesis muta (Linnaeus, 1766) “Surucucu-pico-de-jaca”</p><p>(Figs. 10.7 and 23.1)</p><p>It was recorded in only two localities in Caatinga region, in the states of Ceará and Pernambuco; altitudes of 190 to 736 m elevation. It occurs in highlands of the Baturité Range (Borges-Nojosa &amp; Lima-Verde 1999), and in low altitude areas next to the Atlantic Forest. This viperid is widespread in the northern portion of the Atlantic Forest (Argôlo 2004) and throughout Amazonia (Cunha &amp; Nascimento 1978; Martins &amp; Olivera 1998). It is a rare snake, and the few available records may be related to forested enclaves in the Caatinga. It can be found in relictual moist forests on highlands and arboreal and bushy caatinga with strong Amazonian or Atlantic Forest influence. It has terrestrial habits, is nocturnal, and feeds mostly on mammals (Cunha &amp; Nascimento 1978; Martins &amp; Oliveria 1998; Marques et al. 2001; Argôlo 2004).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFDEFFCAFF09FA6DFD9E1478	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFDCFFC9FF09F8F9FE641253.text	465F3358FFDCFFC9FF09F8F9FE641253.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Chironius bicarinatus (Wied 1820) Wied 1820	<div><p>Chironius bicarinatus (Wied, 1820) “Cobra-de-cipó”</p><p>(Figs. 11.3 and 24.1)</p><p>It was recorded in states of Ceará, Paraíba, Sergipe, and Bahia. It was found mostly in high altitudes (720 to 920 m elevation), with records in low altitudes only next to northeast Atlantic Forest (188 to 460 m elevation). It also occurs in Atlantic Forest, Cerrado, and Pampas (Marques et al. 2001, 2005; Bérnils et al. 2008; Nogueira et al. 2011). It seems be restricted to forested areas in Caatinga, in highland forests on Ceará and Paraíba States, and along the contact area with the Atlantic Forest. It has semi-arboreal habits, is diurnal, and feeds mostly on frogs (Marques et al. 2001).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFDCFFC9FF09F8F9FE641253	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFDCFFC8FF09FA30FBC015FB.text	465F3358FFDCFFC8FF09FA30FBC015FB.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Micrurus	<div><p>Micrurus sp. (Merrem, 1820) “Cobra-de-coral, Coral-da-legítima”</p><p>(Figs. 11.2 and 23.4)</p><p>Caatinga endemic species. It was recorded in all states in the Caatinga, being the most abundant and widespread coral snake in this region. It was called Micrurus ibiboboca by Vanzolini et al. (1980), but they raise the possibility that specimens collected in the semi-arid Caatinga belong to an undescribed new species. It does not fit the original description proposed by Merrem (1820). It is distributed in all phytophysiognomies described for the Caatinga in this work, from sea level to 800 m elevation. It has fossorial habits, is nocturnal and diurnal, and feeds mostly on elongated vertebrates (Vanzolini et al. 1980; Vitt &amp; Vangilder 1983; Argôlo 2004).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFDCFFC8FF09FA30FBC015FB	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFDCFFC8FF09FD54FACB10D7.text	465F3358FFDCFFC8FF09FD54FACB10D7.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Micrurus brasiliensis Roze 1967	<div><p>Micrurus brasiliensis Roze, 1967 “Cobra-de-coral, Coral-da-legítima”</p><p>(Figs. 10.8 and 23.3)</p><p>It was recorded in only two localities on Bahia and Minas Gerais States, close to the contact with the Cerrado region. It was found from 452 to 630 m elevation. This snake is endemic and widely distributed in the Cerrado region (Nogueira et al. 2011) and may be found in savanna enclaves inside Caatinga-Cerrado contact. It has fossorial habits, is nocturnal and diurnal, and feeds mostly on elongated vertebrates (Marques et al. 2001).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFDCFFC8FF09FD54FACB10D7	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFDCFFC8FF09FB8CFBA7167B.text	465F3358FFDCFFC8FF09FB8CFBA7167B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Micrurus frontalis (Duméril, Bibron and Duméril 1854) Dumeril, Bibron and Dumeril 1854	<div><p>Micrurus frontalis (Duméril, Bibron and Duméril, 1854) “Cobra-de-coral, Coral-da-legítima”</p><p>(Figs. 11.1 and 23.3)</p><p>First record for the Caatinga. This species is known in the Caatinga from only one specimen from Bahia State, municipality of Barreiras, in the contact zone between Caatinga and Cerrado. It was found in lowland areas, 452 m elevation. It also occurs in Atlantic Forest, Cerrado, and Pantanal (Marques et al. 2005; Zaher et al. 2009; Nogueira et al. 2010, 2011). Its occurrence was expected in the Caatinga, and Vanzolini et al. (1980) mentioned the possible record of this species for Caatinga from Minas Gerais. Therefore, It can be recorded in other areas in Caatinga- Cerrado contact and in relictual savannas in highlands. The species has fossorial habits, is nocturnal and diurnal, and feeds mostly on elongated vertebrates (Marques et al. 2005; Sawaya et al. 2008).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFDCFFC8FF09FB8CFBA7167B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFDCFFC8FF09FF5FFD5C1191.text	465F3358FFDCFFC8FF09FF5FFD5C1191.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Micrurus lemniscatus (Linnaeus 1758) Linnaeus 1758	<div><p>Micrurus aff. lemniscatus (Linnaeus, 1758) “Cobra-de-coral, Coral-da-legítima”</p><p>(Fig. 23.3)</p><p>It was recorded in the states of Ceará and Bahia. The records are in altitudes between 422 and 760 m elevation. Apparently, this snake has a restricted distribution to the highlands of Diamantina and Araripe Plateaus. The nominal species M. lemniscatus is distributed in Amazon Forest, Cerrado, and Atlantic Forest (Cunha &amp; Nascimento 1978; Argôlo 2004; Nogueira et al. 2010). Inside the Caatinga, this species may inhabit forested areas in highlands, and it has been previously found on arboreal and bushy caatinga vegetation in the Araripe highlands, Ceará State (Loebmann &amp; Haddad 2010). In the Cerrado region M. lemniscatus is found mostly in semideciduous forest areas, but not in the dominant, open savannas (Nogueira et al. 2011). It has fossorial habits, is nocturnal and diurnal, and feeds mostly on elongated vertebrates (Cunha &amp; Nascimento 1978; Martins &amp; Oliveira 1998; Marques et al. 2001; Argôlo 2004; Marques et al. 2005).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFDCFFC8FF09FF5FFD5C1191	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFDDFFC9FF09FE15FEAA11FC.text	465F3358FFDDFFC9FF09FE15FEAA11FC.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Chironius carinatus (Linnaeus 1758) Linnaeus 1758	<div><p>Chironius carinatus (Linnaeus, 1758) “Cobra-de-cipó”</p><p>(Fig. 24.1)</p><p>It was recorded in states of Piauí, Ceará, Alagoas, and Bahia in Caatinga, in areas with low altitudes (up to 368 m elevation). It also occurs in Atlantic and Amazon forests (Cunha &amp; Nascimento 1978; Martins &amp; Oliveira 1998; Marques et al. 2001). Inside the Caatinga, the records are sparse but this species seems to occur in forested areas or in dense arboreal caatinga. Freitas and Silva (2007) comment the presence of this species in open areas of Sergipe State, but we cannot confirm these records because we found no voucher specimens for this area in scientific collections. It has semi-arboreal habits, is diurnal, and feeds mostly on frogs (Cunha &amp; Nascimento 1978; Martins &amp; Oliveira 1998).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFDDFFC9FF09FE15FEAA11FC	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFDDFFC9FF09FCC3FF151769.text	465F3358FFDDFFC9FF09FCC3FF151769.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Chironius exoletus (Linnaeus 1758) Linnaeus 1758	<div><p>Chironius exoletus (Linnaeus, 1758) “Cobra-de-cipó”</p><p>(Figs. 11.4 and 24.2)</p><p>First record in the Caatinga. It is distributed in states of Ceará, Paraíba, Pernambuco, and Bahia. All records are in highlands with at least 500 m elevation. It is also recorded in the Atlantic Forest, Cerrado, and Pantanal (Marques et al. 2001, 2005; Nogueira et al. 2010, 2011). Several records inside Caatinga, including those in São Caitano range (Pernambuco) and Mata do Pau Ferro (Paraíba), are associated to forest enclaves and indicate that this species is a forest dweller. It has semi-arboreal habits, is diurnal, and feeds mostly on frogs (Marques et al. 2001, 2005).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFDDFFC9FF09FCC3FF151769	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFDDFFC9FF09FB4CFE36155F.text	465F3358FFDDFFC9FF09FB4CFE36155F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Chironius flavolineatus (Boettger 1885) Boettger 1885	<div><p>Chironius flavolineatus (Boettger, 1885) “Cobra-de-cipó”</p><p>(Figs. 11.5 and 24.2)</p><p>It was recorded in all areas of the Caatinga except in Rio Grande do Norte, perhaps due to a sampling gap. It occurs mostly below 500 m elevation, but can reach 930 m elevation in Diamantina Plateau. It has sparse records in Caatinga. It also occurs in the Cerrado, Pantanal and Amazonian savannas (Cunha &amp; Nascimento 1978; Dixon et al. 1993; Martins &amp; Oliveira 1998; Marques et al. 2005; Nogueira et al. 2010, 2011). It is found both in forested and open areas (Dixon et al. 1993; Nogueira et al. 2010, 2011; Hamdan &amp; Lira-da-Silva 2012). It can be found in bushy and arboreal caatinga on semi-arid regions. In Diamantina Plateau it was reported from cerrado enclaves (Freitas &amp; Silva 2007). It has semi-arboreal habits, is diurnal, and feeds mostly on frogs (Marques et al. 2001, 2005; Sawaya et al. 2008).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFDDFFC9FF09FB4CFE36155F	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFDDFFCEFF09F921FAA513C7.text	465F3358FFDDFFCEFF09F921FAA513C7.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Chironius quadricarinatus (Boie 1827) Boie 1827	<div><p>Chironius quadricarinatus (Boie, 1827) “Cobra-de-cipó”</p><p>(Figs. 11.6 and 24.1)</p><p>A single record for the Caatinga, in Bahia state, municipality of Mucugê, Diamantina Plateau, 1,000 m elevation. It is also recorded for Atlantic Forest, Amazon Forest, Cerrado, and Pantanal (Dixon et al. 1993; Nogueira et al. 2010; Zaher et al. 2011). The area of occurrence of this species inside Caatinga has a complex phytophysiognomy including caatinga, cerrado, and moist forest vegetation. Freitas and Silva (2007) reported this species in cerrado savannas in the Diamantina Plateau, however, literature records indicate that Chironius quadricarinatus may occur both in open and forested areas (Dixon et al. 1993; Marques et al. 2001; Nogueira et al. 2010). It is widely distributed in the Cerrado region, where it is often found in open interfluvial savannas and open, riparian areas (Nogueira et al. 2011). It has semi-arboreal habits, is diurnal, and feeds mostly on frogs (Dixon et al. 1993).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFDDFFCEFF09F921FAA513C7	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFDAFFCEFF09FEA9FD9E1128.text	465F3358FFDAFFCEFF09FEA9FD9E1128.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dendrophidion atlantica (Freire, Caramaschi and Gonçalves 2010) Freire, Caramaschi and Goncalves 2010	<div><p>Dendrophidion atlantica (Freire, Caramaschi and Gonçalves, 2010)</p><p>(Fig. 24.3)</p><p>First record in the Caatinga. It was recorded in Alagoas State on municipalities of São Miguel dos Campos and Quebrangulo, around 370 m elevation. These localities are next to the Atlantic Forest and close to the type-locality (Ibateguara, Alagoas; Freire et al. 2010). It possibly occurs in contact areas between caatinga vegetation and Atlantic Forest, or forested enclaves in marginal areas of the Caatinga. It has terrestrial habits, is diurnal, and mostly feeds on frogs (Freire et al. 2010).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFDAFFCEFF09FEA9FD9E1128	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFDAFFCEFF09FD0FFABC10F9.text	465F3358FFDAFFCEFF09FD0FFABC10F9.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Drymarchon corais (Boie 1827) Boie 1827	<div><p>Drymarchon corais (Boie, 1827) “Papa-ovo, Papa-ova, Papa-pinto”</p><p>(Figs. 11.7 and 24.3)</p><p>Distributed in all areas of the Caatinga. Most records are in low altitude (sea level to 520 m), with a single record in Diamantina Plateau highlands (up to 1,100 m elevation). It also occurs in Atlantic Forest, Amazon Forest, Cerrado, and Pantanal (Cunha &amp; Nascimento 1978; Strüssmann &amp; Sazima 1993; Martins &amp; Oliveira 1998; Marques et al. 2001; Argôlo 2004; Marques et al. 2005; Sawaya et al. 2008; Nogueira et al. 2010). Recoder et al. (2011) recorded this species to riparian forests in Cerrado. Inside Caatinga, it inhabits all kinds of vegetation, including forested and open areas. There are no records for states of Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, and Pernambuco, probably due to sampling gaps. It has semi-arboreal habits, is diurnal, and feeds on vertebrates (Marques et al. 2001, 2005).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFDAFFCEFF09FD0FFABC10F9	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFDAFFCEFF09FBBCFE47168B.text	465F3358FFDAFFCEFF09FBBCFE47168B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Drymoluber brazili (Gomes 1918) Gomes 1918	<div><p>Drymoluber brazili (Gomes, 1918)</p><p>(Figs. 11.8 and 24.4)</p><p>It was recorded for states of Piauí, Ceará, Paraíba, and Bahia. Occurs in altitudes between 334 and 1,100 m elevation. It was known from few localities in the Caatinga, but it seems to have wide distribution in the Cerrado region, to which it is considered endemic (Nogueira et al. 2011). This is a very rare snake, with few data on habitat use. Valdujo et al. (2009) report the use of typical cerrado savannas in Emas National Park, and Freitas and Silva (2007) report this species only to cerrado enclaves in Diamantina Plateau. Thus, this snake is probably associated to relictual savanna enclaves in the Caatinga region. The species has terrestrial habits, is diurnal, and feeds on vertebrates (Costa 2010).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFDAFFCEFF09FBBCFE47168B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFDAFFCEFF09FA6DFA8E15C8.text	465F3358FFDAFFCEFF09FA6DFA8E15C8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Drymoluber dichrous (Peters 1863) Peters 1863	<div><p>Drymoluber dichrous (Peters, 1863)</p><p>(Figs. 12.1 and 24.4)</p><p>It was recorded only in states of Ceará and Bahia, around 300 m elevation. It also occurs in Atlantic and Amazon Forests (Costa 2010). In Ceará, it occurs only in highland areas where it can be found in relictual moist forests (Loebmann &amp; Haddad 2010). In Bahia state it occurs in contact areas with the Atlantic Forest, and seems to be rare as its congener (Freitas &amp; Silva 2007). It has terrestrial habits, is diurnal, and feeds on vertebrates (Costa 2010).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFDAFFCEFF09FA6DFA8E15C8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFD9FFCDFF09FF19FA6912DC.text	465F3358FFD9FFCDFF09FF19FA6912DC.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Leptophis ahaetulla (Linnaeus 1758) Linnaeus 1758	<div><p>Leptophis ahaetulla (Linnaeus, 1758) “Cobra-de-jericoá, Cipó-verde”</p><p>(Figs. 12.2 and 25.1)</p><p>Recorded in all portions of the Caatinga, except in Rio Grande do Norte State and the sandy dunes of São Francisco River, probably due to sampling gaps. It is recorded mostly on lowlands (up to 500 m elevation), but there are a few records in isolated highlands of the Ibiapaba-Araripe Plateau (900 m elevation) and Diamantina Plateau (at least 740 m elevation). It is also recorded in the Atlantic Forest, Cerrado, and Pantanal regions (Marques et al. 2001, 2005; Nogueira et al. 2010). In Caatinga this snake occurs in all phytophisiognomies, but mostly in bushy and arboreal caatinga vegetation. It has arboreal habits, is diurnal, and feeds on vertebrates (Marques et al. 2001, 2005).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFD9FFCDFF09FF19FA6912DC	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFD9FFCDFF09FDA3FB5B10B1.text	465F3358FFD9FFCDFF09FDA3FB5B10B1.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Mastigodryas bifossatus (Radi 1820) Radi 1820	<div><p>Mastigodryas bifossatus (Radi, 1820)</p><p>(Figs. 12.3 and 25.2)</p><p>It was recorded in all states in Caatinga, except Pernambuco and Sergipe, probably due to poor sampling. Most records are from lower altitudes (up to 500 m elevation), except for two records on highlands reaching 900 m elevation. Besides its occurrence in Caatinga, it is widely distributed in the Atlantic Forest, Amazon Forest, Cerrado, Pantanal, and Pampas (Cunha &amp; Nascimento 1978; Strüssmann &amp; Sazima 1993; Martins &amp; Oliveira 1998; Cechin 1999; Marques et al. 2001; Lema 2002a; Argôlo 2004; Colli 2005; Marques et al. 2005; Marques et al. 2005; Bérnils et al. 2008; Sawaya et al. 2008; Nogueira et al. 2010; Zaher et al. 2011). Inside the Caatinga it occurs in all phytophisiognomies, indicating a generalist trend in habitat use (see also Nogueira et al. 2011). It has terrestrial habits, is diurnal, and feeds on a variety of vertebrates (Marques et al. 2001, 2005).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFD9FFCDFF09FDA3FB5B10B1	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFD9FFCDFF09FC74FCF11666.text	465F3358FFD9FFCDFF09FC74FCF11666.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Mastigodryas boddaerti (Sentzen 1796) Sentzen 1796	<div><p>Mastigodryas boddaerti (Sentzen, 1796)</p><p>(Figs. 12.4 and 25.2)</p><p>It was recorded only in states of Piauí (Sete Cidades National Park) and Ceará (Ibiapaba-Araripe Plateau). Thus, it was registered in both high (775 m elevation) and low (60 m elevation) areas in a relatively restricted area of the northwestern portion of the Caatinga, close to the Cerrado contacts. It also occurs in Amazon Forest, Cerrado, and Pantanal (Martins &amp; Oliveira 1998; Marques et al. 2005; Nogueira et al. 2010). In the Cerrado it is found mainly along gallery forest areas (Nogueira et al. 2011). It was recorded in a highland relictual forest area (Nascimento &amp; Lima-Verde 1989; Loebmann &amp; Haddad 2010; Montingelli et al. 2011) inside the Caatinga, and was also found in typical cerrado vegetation in Sete Cidades National Park (Rocha &amp; Prudente 2010). It has terrestrial habits, is diurnal, and feeds on vertebrates (Marques et al. 2005).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFD9FFCDFF09FC74FCF11666	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFD9FFCDFF09FA49FCF11454.text	465F3358FFD9FFCDFF09FA49FCF11454.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Oxybelis aeneus (Wagler 1824) Wagler 1824	<div><p>Oxybelis aeneus (Wagler, 1824) “Cipó-bicuda”</p><p>(Figs. 12.5 and 25.3)</p><p>Distributed in all regions of the Caatinga and was recorded in high and low altitudes (between 0 and 1,100 m elevation). It is also widely distributed in Atlantic Forest, Amazon Forest, Cerrado, and Pantanal (Cunha &amp; Nascimento 1978; Strüssmann &amp; Sazima 1993; Martins &amp; Oliveira 1998; Marques et al. 2001; Argôlo 2004; Marques et al. 2005; Marques et al. 2005; Sawaya et al. 2008; Nogueira et al. 2010; Zaher et al. 2011). This species was abundant on grasslands on sandy soils in the Cerrado (Recoder et al. 2011, CN pers. obs.), but inside Caatinga it is widespread, abundant, and inhabits all kinds of vegetation types described for Caatinga, from areas with arboreal Caatinga to bushy and open, herbaceous areas (TBG pers. obs.). The species has arboreal habits, is diurnal, and feeds on vertebrates (Marques et al. 2005).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFD9FFCDFF09FA49FCF11454	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFE6FFF2FF09FF19FDE61128.text	465F3358FFE6FFF2FF09FF19FDE61128.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pseustes sulphureus (Wagler 1824) Wagler 1824	<div><p>Pseustes sulphureus (Wagler, 1824) “Papa-pinto, Papa-ova”</p><p>(Figs. 12.6 and 25.4)</p><p>There are two records for this species in the Caatinga in state of Ceará, municipalities of Pacotí and Fortaleza. These areas have 736 m and 21 m of elevation, respectively. It also occurs in Atlantic Forest, Amazon, Cerrado, and Pantanal (Cunha &amp; Nascimento 1978; Strüssmann &amp; Sazima 1993; Martins &amp; Oliveira 1998; Marques et al. 2001; Argôlo 2004; Marques et al. 2005; Marques et al. 2005; Nogueira et al. 2010; Zaher et al. 2011). It inhabits relictual moist forests in highlands (Borges-Nojosa et al. 2006; Loebmann &amp; Haddad, 2010) and probably bushy and arboreal caatinga in semi-arid areas near the coast, along the Atlantic Forest contact. Freitas and Silva (2007) report this species to forested areas (floresta estacional) in Diamantina Plateau, Bahia State, but the vouchers for these records could not be found during our data collection. It has semi-arboreal habits, is diurnal, and feeds on vertebrates (Marques et al. 2001).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFE6FFF2FF09FF19FDE61128	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFE6FFF2FF09FD0FFF1510D5.text	465F3358FFE6FFF2FF09FD0FFF1510D5.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Simophis rhinostoma (Schlegel 1837) Schlegel 1837	<div><p>Simophis rhinostoma (Schlegel, 1837) “Falsa-coral”</p><p>(Figs. 12.7 and 25.4)</p><p>The first and single record of this species in Caatinga is in state of Bahia, municipality of Mucugê, Diamantina Plateau, 1,100 m of altitude, in open, grassy cerrado relicts. It occurs widely along the Cerrado region and Pantanal (Marques et al. 2005; Nogueira et al. 2010). The presence of this species in the Caatinga is probably associated with savanna enclaves in high altitude, because it is considered an open area species (Sawaya et al. 2008; Nogueira et al. 2010). The species has terrestrial habits, is diurnal, and feeds on frogs (Marques et al. 2005; Sawaya et al. 2008).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFE6FFF2FF09FD0FFF1510D5	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFE6FFF2FF09FB98FD18168B.text	465F3358FFE6FFF2FF09FB98FD18168B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Spilotes pullatus (Linnaeus 1758) Linnaeus 1758	<div><p>Spilotes pullatus (Linnaeus, 1758) “Caninana”</p><p>(Figs. 12.8 and 25.4)</p><p>Recorded in all states of the Caatinga, except Rio Grande do Norte, probably due to sampling gap. Recorded both in low and high altitudes (up to 1,000 m elevation). Besides its occurrence in Caatinga, it is widely distributed in Atlantic Forest, Amazon Forest, Cerrado, and Pantanal (Cunha &amp; Nascimento 1978; Strüssmann &amp; Sazima 1993; Martins &amp; Oliveira 1998; Marques et al. 2001; Argôlo 2004; Marques et al. 2005; Marques et al. 2005; Sawaya et al. 2008; Nogueira et al. 2010; Zaher et al. 2011), generally associated to forested habitats (Marques 1998; Barbo et al. 2011; Zaher et al. 2011; Hamdan &amp; Lira-da-Silva 2012). Inside Caatinga, It inhabits all phytophisiognomies, preferably bushy and arboreal caatinga vegetation and also forested enclaves. It has semi-arboreal habits, is diurnal, and feeds on vertebrates (Marques et al. 2001, 2005).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFE6FFF2FF09FB98FD18168B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFE6FFF2FF09FA6DFF151478.text	465F3358FFE6FFF2FF09FA6DFF151478.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Tantilla marcovani Lema 2004	<div><p>Tantilla marcovani Lema, 2004</p><p>(Figs. 13.1 and 26.1)</p><p>Caatinga endemic species. Known only one from the type-locality on Paraíba State, Pico do Jabre, municipality of Maturéia (Lema 2004; Filho et al. 2011), 1,090 m elevation. The type locality is a moist forest relict locally called mata serrana, or upland forest (Lema 2004). Thus, It shows a restricted distribution in an isolated forested area. There is a report of Tantilla cf. marcovani to Diamantina Plateau, municipality of Mucugê (Freitas &amp; Silva 2007), but the determination of this species is problematic and we thus opted to restrict the name T. marcovani only to specimens collected in Pico do Jabre. As all Neotropical Tantilla species, this species has terrestrial habits, is diurnal and nocturnal, and feeds on chilopods (Cunha &amp; Nascimento 1978; Martins &amp; Oliveira 1998; Argôlo 2004).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFE6FFF2FF09FA6DFF151478	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFE4FFF0FF09FD54FDD7171E.text	465F3358FFE4FFF0FF09FD54FDD7171E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Apostolepis ammodites Ferrarezzi, Barbo and Albuquerque 2005	<div><p>Apostolepis ammodites Ferrarezzi, Barbo and Albuquerque, 2005 “Cobra-de-ferrão, cobra-rainha”</p><p>(Figs. 13.3 and 26.2)</p><p>First record in the Caatinga. Recorded only in the state of Bahia, close to contact areas with the Cerrado region, 440 m elevation. It is widespread in the northeastern portion of the Cerrado, often on grassland areas on sandy soils (Ferrarezzi et al. 2005) and considered a Cerrado endemic (Nogueira et al. 2010, 2011). Its occurrence in the Caatinga is probably associated to Cerrado enclaves along the Cerrado-Caatinga contact area in Bahia and Minas Gerais states. It has fossorial and psammophylous habits, is diurnal and nocturnal, and feeds on elongated vertebrates (Ferrarezzi et al. 2005).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFE4FFF0FF09FD54FDD7171E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFE4FFF0FF09FBE1FE101660.text	465F3358FFE4FFF0FF09FBE1FE101660.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Apostolepis arenaria Rodrigues 1992	<div><p>Apostolepis arenaria Rodrigues, 1992</p><p>(Figs. 13.4 and 26.3)</p><p>Caatinga endemic species. This species is recorded only to the type-locality, Alagoado village, municipality of Casa Nova, state of Bahia. This is a lowland locality (ca. 400 m elevation) on the western banks of the São Francisco river channel. It was recorded only in herbaceous and bushy caatinga with dunes and sandy soils (Rodrigues 1992). It has fossorial and psammophylous habits, is diurnal and nocturnal, and feeds on elongated vertebrates (Rodrigues 1992).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFE4FFF0FF09FBE1FE101660	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFE4FFF0FF09FA47FD4C15C9.text	465F3358FFE4FFF0FF09FA47FD4C15C9.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Apostolepis assimilis (Reinhardt 1861) Reinhardt 1861	<div><p>Apostolepis assimilis (Reinhardt, 1861) “Cobra-de-ferrão, cobra-rainha”</p><p>(Figs. 13.5 and 26.2)</p><p>Recorded only in the states of Bahia and Minas Gerais. It was recorded in areas next to the Cerrado contact but was also reported in lowland semi-arid caatinga by Lema (2002b), maximum 254 to 440 m elevation. It is known from Atlantic Forest and Cerrado (Ferrarezzi et al. 2005, Nogueira et al. 2010). In Caatinga, it inhabits bushy and herbaceous caatinga on sandy soils or cerrado enclaves. It has fossorial habits, is diurnal and nocturnal, and feeds on elongated vertebrates (Ferrarezzi et al. 2005).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFE4FFF0FF09FA47FD4C15C9	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFE4FFF1FF09F8ACFD4C120E.text	465F3358FFE4FFF1FF09F8ACFD4C120E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Apostolepis cearensis Gomes 1915	<div><p>Apostolepis cearensis Gomes, 1915 “Cobra-de-ferrão, cobra-rainha”</p><p>(Figs. 13.6 and 26.2)</p><p>Caatinga endemic species. It has a wide range in the Caatinga, including the states of Piauí, Ceará, Paraíba, Alagoas, and Bahia. Most records are in lowlands, covered with semi-arid Caatinga, with a few isolated records in higher areas. Not recorded in the states of Rio Grande do Norte and Pernambuco, perhaps as a result of sampling gaps. It inhabits herbaceous, bushy and arboreal caatinga, and moist forest with sandy soils. It is the most common species of the genus in the Caatinga. It has fossorial and psammophylous habits, is diurnal and nocturnal, and feeds on elongated vertebrates (Ferrarezzi et al. 2005).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFE4FFF1FF09F8ACFD4C120E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFE4FFF0FF09FF19FE121128.text	465F3358FFE4FFF0FF09FF19FE121128.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Tantilla melanocephala (Linnaeus 1758) Linnaeus 1758	<div><p>Tantilla melanocephala (Linnaeus, 1758)</p><p>(Figs. 13.2 and 26.1)</p><p>Recorded in all states of the Caatinga, except Rio Grande do Norte, probably as a result of sampling gaps. It was found in low and high altitudes (up to 1000 m elevation). Besides the Caatinga, it is widely distributed in Atlantic Forest, Amazon Forest, Cerrado, Pantanal, and Pampas (Cunha &amp; Nascimento 1978; Strüssmann &amp; Sazima 1993; Martins &amp; Oliveira 1998; Cechin 1999; Marques et al. 2001; Lema 2002a; Argôlo 2004; Colli 2005; Marques et al. 2005; Marques et al. 2005; Bérnils et al. 2008; Sawaya et al. 2008; Nogueira et al. 2010; Zaher et al. 2011). This species was recorded in interfluvial savannas, in the Cerrado (Sawaya et al. 2008; Recoder et al. 2011). Inside Caatinga, It seems be found on all kinds of vegetation described in this study. It has terrestrial habits, is diurnal and nocturnal, and feeds on chilopods (Cunha &amp; Nascimento 1978; Martins &amp; Oliveira 1998; Argôlo 2004; Marques et al. 2005; Sawaya et al. 2008).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFE4FFF0FF09FF19FE121128	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFE5FFF1FF09FB98FC39161B.text	465F3358FFE5FFF1FF09FB98FC39161B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Apostolepis	<div><p>Apostolepis sp.</p><p>(Fig. 26.3)</p><p>The single two specimens were recorded in Bahia State, municipality of Poções. The area is an isolated highland, with altitude up to 760 m elevation. We have no information about the specific habitat where this species can be found. We believe that it occurs in sandy soils as other species of the genus. As other congeneric species, it seems to be fossorial, diurnal and nocturnal, and feeds on elongated vertebrates.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFE5FFF1FF09FB98FC39161B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFE5FFF1FF09FD57FAA410D5.text	465F3358FFE5FFF1FF09FD57FAA410D5.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Apostolepis gaboi Rodrigues 1992	<div><p>Apostolepis gaboi Rodrigues, 1992</p><p>(Figs. 13.8 and 26.3)</p><p>Caatinga endemic species. It is known only for the state of Bahia, municipalities of Barra and Pilão Arcado, on depositional lowlands from 394 to 406 m elevation, close to the eastern banks of the São Francisco river channel. It was recorded only in bushy and herbaceous caatinga on dunes and sandy soil (Rodrigues 1992). It has fossorial and psammophylous habits, is diurnal and nocturnal, and feeds on elongated vertebrates (Ferrarezzi et al. 2005).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFE5FFF1FF09FD57FAA410D5	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFE5FFF1FF09FEF1FD3C1190.text	465F3358FFE5FFF1FF09FEF1FD3C1190.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Apostolepis pymi	<div><p>Apostolepis aff. pymi</p><p>(Figs. 13.7 and 26.3)</p><p>Caatinga endemic species. Recorded only in Ibiapaba Plateau Baturité, and Maranguape ranges, Ceará State. It inhabits upland areas above to 600 m elevation and was found exclusively on moist relictual forests within the Caatinga (Loebmann &amp; Haddad 2010). Species of Apostolepis pymy group are found mostly along Amazonia and central Brazil, often associated to forests. As other congeneric species, the species seems to be fossorial, diurnal and nocturnal, and feeds on elongated vertebrates.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFE5FFF1FF09FEF1FD3C1190	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFE5FFF1FF09F967FE8C14C5.text	465F3358FFE5FFF1FF09F967FE8C14C5.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Atractus caete Passos, Fernandes, Bernils and Moura-Leite 2010	<div><p>Atractus caete Passos, Fernandes, Bérnils and Moura-Leite, 2010</p><p>(Fig. 26.4)</p><p>Recorded only for the state of Alagoas, in municipality of Quebrangulo, 366 m elevation. This area is located in the Caatinga-Atlantic Forest contact. According to Passos et al. (2010), it was found in remnants of submontane forest in Atlantic Forest. It has cryptozoic and fossorial habits, is diurnal and nocturnal, and feeds mostly on earthworms (Passos et al. 2010).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFE5FFF1FF09F967FE8C14C5	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFE5FFF1FF09FADDFDDD1580.text	465F3358FFE5FFF1FF09FADDFDDD1580.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Atractus maculatus Gunther 1858	<div><p>Atractus aff. maculatus Günther, 1858</p><p>(Figs. 14.1 and 26.4)</p><p>Recorded for the state of Sergipe, municipality of Lagarto and Simão Dias, altitude 183 and 263 m elevation respectively. The nominal species Atractus maculatus was previously recorded in state of Alagoas and Pernambuco in Atlantic Forest enclaves (Passos et al. 2010). It was collected in arboreal caatinga with sandy soil, inside the semi-arid region (G. Nunes pers. comm.) and shows considerable differences in color pattern compared to Atractus maculatus (P. Passos pers. comm.). It has cryptozoic and fossorial habits, is diurnal and nocturnal, and feeds mostly on earthworms (Passos et al. 2010).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFE5FFF1FF09FADDFDDD1580	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFE3FFF7FF09FF19FA9C12B8.text	465F3358FFE3FFF7FF09FF19FA9C12B8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Atractus potschi Fernandes 1995	<div><p>Atractus potschi Fernandes, 1995</p><p>(Fig. 26.4)</p><p>Recorded to states of Sergipe and Bahia. It has a restricted distribution in the Caatinga, along the contact with the Atlantic Forest and in highland areas of the Diamantina Plateau. It can be found in lowlands or mountain slopes, from sea level to 900 m elevation. It was previously recorded only to the Atlantic Forest (Passos et al. 2010). It is distributed on forested areas including arboreal and bushy caatinga with Atlantic Forest influence (agreste). It has cryptozoic and fossorial habits, is diurnal and nocturnal, and feeds mostly on earthworms (Passos et al. 2010).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFE3FFF7FF09FF19FA9C12B8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFE3FFF7FF09FE7FFE8C1001.text	465F3358FFE3FFF7FF09FE7FFE8C1001.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Atractus ronnie Passos, Fernandes and Borges-Nojosa 2007	<div><p>Atractus ronnie Passos, Fernandes and Borges-Nojosa, 2007</p><p>(Figs. 14.2 and 26.4)</p><p>Caatinga endemic species. Recorded only to Ceará State in Baturité and Ibiapaba-Araripe ranges. These localities are situated in isolated plateaus above 600 m elevation. The available records indicate that it inhabits moist, relictual slope forest in Caatinga (Passos et al. 2007; Loebmann et al. 2009; Passos et al. 2010; Loebmann &amp; Haddad 2010). It has cryptozoic and fossorial habits, is diurnal and nocturnal, and feeds mostly on earthworms (Passos et al. 2010).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFE3FFF7FF09FE7FFE8C1001	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFE3FFF7FF09FCE4FD3E176B.text	465F3358FFE3FFF7FF09FCE4FD3E176B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Boiruna sertaneja Zaher 1996	<div><p>Boiruna sertaneja Zaher, 1996 “Muçurana, cobra-de-leite, cobra-preta”</p><p>(Figs. 14.3 and 27.1)</p><p>Caatinga endemic species. It has a wide range in the region, recorded in all portions of the Caatinga. Most records located in low altitudes, but it was also present in high altitude areas in Bahia and Ceará states, up to 1,000 m elevation. It inhabits xerophyttic vegetation (Zaher 1996) that includes herbaceous, arboreal and bushy caatinga and cerrado vegetation on highland and contact areas. It has terrestrial habits, is diurnal and nocturnal, and feeds mostly on vertebrates (Zaher 1996; Guedes 2006).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFE3FFF7FF09FCE4FD3E176B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFE3FFF7FF09FB4DFE6416CC.text	465F3358FFE3FFF7FF09FB4DFE6416CC.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Clelia plumbea (Wied 1820) Wied 1820	<div><p>Clelia plumbea (Wied, 1820) “Muçurana, cobra-de-leite, cobra-preta”</p><p>(Figs. 14.4 and 27.1)</p><p>It was recorded in the northern portion of Minas Gerais and eastern Bahia. It occurs only in low-lying areas in Caatinga, up to 230 m elevation. Is is also distributed in Atlantic Forest and Cerrado (Marques et al. 2001; Argôlo 2004; Nogueira et al. 2010). Inside the Caatinga region, it inhabits contact areas next to the Atlantic Forest (agreste) and the Cerrado domain. It has terrestrial habits, is diurnal and nocturnal, and feeds mostly on vertebrates (Marques et al. 2001).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFE3FFF7FF09FB4DFE6416CC	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFE3FFF7FF09F9B2FAAB1479.text	465F3358FFE3FFF7FF09F9B2FAAB1479.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dipsas sazimai Fernandes, Marques and Argolo 2010	<div><p>Dipsas sazimai Fernandes, Marques and Argôlo, 2010 “Dormideira”</p><p>(Figs. 14.5 and 27.2)</p><p>It was recorded only in the state of Bahia, municipalities of Elísio Medrado (Serra da Jibóia), Jequié, and Miguel Calmon in Atlantic Forest contact areas up to 300 m elevation. It was previously recorded only in the Atlantic Forest, from Alagoas to São Paulo, also in high altitudes (Fernandes et al. 2010). Isolated populations in the Caatinga seem to have a restricted distribution in Diamantina Plateau complex, where it probably inhabits forested areas, the typical habitat of its congeners (Peters 1960). In contact areas it can be found in xerophitic vegetation next to the Atlantic Forest. It has arboreal habits, is nocturnal, and feeds on mollusks (Fernandes et al. 2010).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFE3FFF7FF09F9B2FAAB1479	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFE0FFF4FF09FF19FCAE12B8.text	465F3358FFE0FFF4FF09FF19FCAE12B8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dipsas variegata (Duméril, Bibron and Duméril 1854) Dumeril, Bibron and Dumeril 1854	<div><p>Dipsas variegata (Duméril, Bibron and Duméril, 1854) “Dormideira”</p><p>(Fig. 27.2)</p><p>Recorded only in the state of Alagoas, municipality of Quebrangulo. This is a contact area with the Atlantic Forest, 370 m elevation. It is also recorded in Atlantic and Amazonian forests (Cunha &amp; Nascimento 1978; Zaher et al. 2011). Quebrangulo region is covered with arboreal and bushy caatinga with strong influence of Atlantic Forest. It probably inhabits forested areas, the typical habitat of its congeners (Peters 1960). It has arboreal habits, is nocturnal, and feeds on mollusks (Cunha &amp; Nascimento 1978).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFE0FFF4FF09FF19FCAE12B8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFE0FFF4FF09FE7FFC391049.text	465F3358FFE0FFF4FF09FE7FFC391049.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Erythrolamprus almadensis (Wagler 1824) Wagler 1824	<div><p>Erythrolamprus almadensis (Wagler, 1824)</p><p>(Figs. 14.6 and 27.2)</p><p>Recorded in Rio Grande do Norte and Pernambuco in the Caatinga-Atlantic Forest contact area, and in the semiarid Caatinga of Bahia. All records are below 500 m elevation. It also occurs in Amazon, Cerrado, Pantanal, and Pampas (Cunha &amp; Nascimento 1978; Strüssmann &amp; Sazima 1993; Martins &amp; Oliveira 1998; Cechin 1999; Lema 2002a; Colli 2005; Marques et al. 2005; Nogueira et al. 2010). Inside the Cerrado, it occurs in wetlands or near water bodies (CN pers. obs.). Inside Caatinga we have no information on habitat use, and it appears to be rare in Caatinga. It is a typical open area species occurring in xerophytic vegetation and bushy and arboreal Caatinga. It has terrestrial habits, is diurnal, and feeds on frogs (Marques et al. 2005).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFE0FFF4FF09FE7FFC391049	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFE0FFF4FF09FC2CFB7517D3.text	465F3358FFE0FFF4FF09FC2CFB7517D3.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Erythrolamprus maryellenae Dixon 1985	<div><p>Erythrolamprus maryellenae Dixon, 1985</p><p>(Figs. 14.7 and 27.2)</p><p>Recorded at a single locality in the Diamantina Plateau, municipality of Mucugê, Bahia State, 983 m elevation. It was previously known only in the Cerrado region and is considered endemic to this domain, found mostly in riparian, open areas (Nogueira et al. 2010). Its presence in our study region seems to be restricted to campos rupestres and other cerrado associated grasslands in isolated highlands inside the Caatinga. It has terrestrial and semi aquatic habits, is diurnal, and feeds on vertebrates (Dixon 1989, França et al. 2008).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFE0FFF4FF09FC2CFB7517D3	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFE0FFF4FF09FA95FCE31534.text	465F3358FFE0FFF4FF09FA95FCE31534.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Erythrolamprus miliaris (Linnaeus 1758) Linnaeus 1758	<div><p>Erythrolamprus miliaris (Linnaeus, 1758) “Cobra-d’água”</p><p>(Figs. 14.8 and 27.3)</p><p>Recorded in the states of Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Pernambuco, Alagoas, and Bahia. It inhabits low-lying areas (up to 552 m elevation) in the semi-arid and marginal contact areas. It is also recorded in the Atlantic Forest and marginally in the Cerrado (Marques et al. 2001; Nogueira et al. 2010). Few and sparse records inside Caatinga, were frequently associated with water bodies within the typical xerophitic vegetation. It has semi-aquatic habits, is diurnal, and feeds mostly on frogs (Marques et al. 2001).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFE0FFF4FF09FA95FCE31534	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFE0FFF4FF09F9FAFE2E1479.text	465F3358FFE0FFF4FF09F9FAFE2E1479.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Erythrolamprus mossoroensis Hoge and Lima-Verde 1972	<div><p>Erythrolamprus mossoroensis Hoge and Lima-Verde, 1972</p><p>(Figs. 15.1 and 27.3)</p><p>Caatinga endemic species. Recorded in a large area of the Caatinga in Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Pernambuco, Bahia, and northern Minas Gerais. All records are in low altitude (not exceeding 500 m elevation) and open areas, in herbaceous, bushy, and arboreal caatinga (Vanzolini et al. 1980). It has terrestrial habits, is diurnal, and feeds on frogs (Vanzolini et al. 1980).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFE0FFF4FF09F9FAFE2E1479	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFEEFFFAFF09FF19FF1512DC.text	465F3358FFEEFFFAFF09FF19FF1512DC.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Erythrolamprus poecilogyrus (Wied 1825) Wied 1825	<div><p>Erythrolamprus poecilogyrus (Wied, 1825) “Casco-de-burro”</p><p>(Figs. 15.2 and 27.4)</p><p>Occurs in all portions of the Caatinga and is abundant in all phytophysiognomies of the domain. It can be found in low and high altitude areas (up to 1,100 m elevation). It is also widely distributed in the Atlantic Forest, Cerrado, and Pantanal (Marques et al. 2001, 2005; Nogueira et al. 2010). It is widespread in open and forested areas including savanna grasslands and riparian or dry forests (Marques et al. 2001, 2005; Sawaya et al. 2008; Nogueira et al. 2010, 2011). It has semi-aquatic habits, is diurnal and nocturnal, and feeds on frogs (Marques et al. 2001, 2005).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFEEFFFAFF09FF19FF1512DC	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFEEFFFAFF09FDA3FB921049.text	465F3358FFEEFFFAFF09FDA3FB921049.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Erythrolamprus reginae (Linnaeus 1758) Linnaeus 1758	<div><p>Erythrolamprus reginae (Linnaeus, 1758) “Cobra-verde”</p><p>(Figs. 15.3 and 27.3)</p><p>It was recorded in the states of Piauí, Ceará, Alagoas, and Sergipe, with most records in Ceará State. Most records are in highland forest areas (at least 600 m elevation), with occasional records in semi-arid and contact areas near the coast (under 500 m elevation). It also occurs in Atlantic Forest, Amazon Forest, Cerrado, and Pantanal (Cunha &amp; Nascimento 1978; Martins &amp; Oliveira 1998; Marques et al. 2001, 2005; Nogueira et al. 2010). In the Cerrado region it is typical of forested, humid riparian areas (mostly gallery forest, see Nogueira et al. 2011). It has terrestrial habits, is diurnal, and feeds on frogs and lizards (Marques et al. 2001, 2005).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFEEFFFAFF09FDA3FB921049	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFEEFFFAFF09FC2CFD3817F6.text	465F3358FFEEFFFAFF09FC2CFD3817F6.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Erythrolamprus taeniogaster Jan 1863	<div><p>Erythrolamprus taeniogaster Jan, 1863</p><p>(Fig. 28.1)</p><p>Recorded in the states of Ceará, Alagoas, and Bahia. It inhabits altitudes above 600 m elevation and low-lying areas next to the Atlantic Forest. It is also known in the Atlantic Forest, Cerrado, and Pantanal (Marques et al. 2001, Fernandes et al. 2002; Marques et al. 2005; Nogueira et al. 2010). Despite the sparse records, it seems to inhabit moist forested highland areas, plus lower xerophytic arboreal and bushy caatinga where there is influence of the Atlantic Forest climate. It has terrestrial habits, is diurnal and nocturnal, and feeds on frogs (Marques et al. 2001, Fernandes et al. 2002; Marques et al. 2005).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFEEFFFAFF09FC2CFD3817F6	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFEEFFFAFF09FAB9FB3A1510.text	465F3358FFEEFFFAFF09FAB9FB3A1510.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Erythrolamprus viridis Gunther 1862	<div><p>Erythrolamprus viridis Günther, 1862 “Cobra-verde”</p><p>(Figs. 15.4 and 28.1)</p><p>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).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFEEFFFAFF09FAB9FB3A1510	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFEEFFFAFF09F9D7FCCC14C5.text	465F3358FFEEFFFAFF09F9D7FCCC14C5.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Helicops infrataeniatus (Jan 1865) Jan 1865	<div><p>Helicops aff. infrataeniatus (Jan, 1865) “Cobra-d’água”</p><p>(Fig. 28.2)</p><p>First record in the Caatinga. Recorded only in state of Paraíba, municipality of Campina Grande, based on a single specimen. This area is situated on the Borborema Plateau, 560 m elevation, with strong influence of the adjacent Atlantic Forest. After the analysis of 319 specimens of Helicops from Caatinga, we found only one specimen of Helicops aff. infrataeniatus, indicating that this species is probably rare and geographically restricted. The nominal species Helicops infrataeniatus is known from the Atlantic Forest and Pampas of Southern Brazil (Scartozzoni 2009). The Borborema Plateau is covered with arboreal and bushy caatinga, being wetter than adjacent semi-arid lowlands, due to the topography and proximity to coastal Atlantic Forest in high altitudes (agreste). It is diurnal and nocturnal, and feeds on frogs and fishes (Scartozzoni 2009).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFEEFFFAFF09F9D7FCCC14C5	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFEFFFFBFF09FF19FD5E12FD.text	465F3358FFEFFFFBFF09FF19FD5E12FD.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Helicops angulatus (Linnaeus 1758) Linnaeus 1758	<div><p>Helicops angulatus (Linnaeus, 1758) “Cobra-d’água”</p><p>(Figs. 15.5 and 28.2)</p><p>It was recorded in the states of Piauí, Ceará, Paraíba, and Sergipe. The records in Caatinga are in low altitudes (up to 560 m elevation). This species also occurs in the Amazon Forest, Cerrado, and Pantanal regions (Cunha &amp; Nascimento 1978; Martins &amp; Oliveira 1998; Marques et al. 2005; Nogueira et al. 2010). It inhabits arboreal and bush caatinga next to the eastern Atlantic Forest and relictual moist forests in highland areas. As other congeneric species, it is an aquatic snake and consequently, its distribution is determined by the presence of water bodies and dependent on the dranage system (see Rodrigues 2005). It is diurnal and nocturnal, and feeds mostly on frogs and fishes (Marques et al. 2005; Scartozzoni 2009).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFEFFFFBFF09FF19FD5E12FD	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFEFFFFBFF09FDB7FE49109F.text	465F3358FFEFFFFBFF09FDB7FE49109F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Helicops leopardinus (Schlegel 1837) Schlegel 1837	<div><p>Helicops leopardinus (Schlegel, 1837) “Cobra-d’água, Jararaca-d’água”</p><p>(Figs. 15.6 and 28.3)</p><p>Recorded in all portions of the Caatinga, except in Rio Grande do Norte, probably due to limited sampling. Recorded up to 750 m elevation, but most records are in areas below 500 m of elevation. It is widely distributed in the Amazon Forest, Pantanal, and Cerrado regions (Cunha &amp; Nascimento 1978; Martins &amp; Oliveira 1998; Marques et al. 2005; Nogueira et al. 2010). Inside the Cerrado It was found in water bodies surrounded by riparian forests (Recoder et al. 2011). Inside Caatinga, as an aquatic snake, its distribution is determined by the presence of water bodies and dependent of drainage system (see Rodrigues 2005). It is diurnal and nocturnal, and feeds on frogs and fishes (Scartozzoni 2009).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFEFFFFBFF09FDB7FE49109F	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFEFFFFBFF09FC54FAF51614.text	465F3358FFEFFFFBFF09FC54FAF51614.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Helicops modestus Gunther 1861	<div><p>Helicops modestus Günther, 1861 “Cobra-d’água”</p><p>(Figs. 15.7 and 28.2)</p><p>It was recorded only in the state of Bahia, municipality of Caitité. This area is located in the Chapada Diamantina complex, ca. 970 m elevation. We have only one specimen recorded (Freitas &amp; Silva 2011) and we believe this species has a restricted distribution confined to high altitude areas. It is also distributed in upland Atlantic Forest and Cerrado (Marques et al. 2001; Nogueira et al. 2010). It was found in a complex phytophysionomic of dry forest that includes xerophytic phytophysiognomies of the arboreal and bush caatinga and cerrado vegetation (M. A. Freitas pers. comm). It is diurnal and nocturnal, and feeds on frogs and fishes (Scartozzoni 2009).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFEFFFFBFF09FC54FAF51614	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFEFFFFBFF09FAD1FF151591.text	465F3358FFEFFFFBFF09FAD1FF151591.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Hydrops triangularis (Wagler 1824) Wagler 1824	<div><p>Hydrops triangularis (Wagler, 1824) “Cobra-d’água”</p><p>(Figs. 15.8 and 28.2)</p><p>First record in the Caatinga. It was recorded only from the state of Maranhão, municipality of Timon in the northwesterns borders of the Caatinga and contact with Cerrado and Amazonia. It is also distributed in the Amazon Forest and Cerrado regions (Cunha &amp; Nascimento 1978; Martins &amp; Oliveira 1998; Nogueira et al. 2010, 2011). We believe this species can be found in other areas of the Caatinga next to its contact with Cerrado. It is an aquatic snake that inhabits water bodies (Scartozzoni 2009). It is diurnal and nocturnal, and feeds on fishes (Scartozzoni 2009).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFEFFFFBFF09FAD1FF151591	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFEFFFFBFF09F954FEEA14FB.text	465F3358FFEFFFFBFF09F954FEEA14FB.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Imantodes cenchoa (Linnaeus 1758) Linnaeus 1758	<div><p>Imantodes cenchoa (Linnaeus, 1758) “Dormideira”</p><p>(Figs. 16.1 and 28.4)</p><p>Recorded in the states of Ceará, Pernambuco, and Alagoas. Occurs only in areas above 500 m elevation. It also occurs in Atlantic Forest, Amazon Forest, and Cerrado regions (Cunha &amp; Nascimento 1978; Martins &amp; Oliveira 1998; Marques et al. 2001, 2005; Nogueira et al. 2010, 2011). It is apparently restricted to moist relictual forest in Caatinga (Loebmann &amp; Haddad 2010). It has arboreal habits, is nocturnal, and feeds on frogs and lizards (Marques et al. 2001).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFEFFFFBFF09F954FEEA14FB	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFEDFFF9FF09FF19FADD1104.text	465F3358FFEDFFF9FF09FF19FADD1104.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Leptodeira annulata (Linnaeus 1758) Linnaeus 1758	<div><p>Leptodeira annulata (Linnaeus, 1758) “Jararaquinha, dormideira, Jararaca-de-tabuleiro”</p><p>(Figs. 16.2 and 28.4)</p><p>It was recorded in all portions of the Caatinga. We have no records in Pernambuco State and central portion of Bahia State, perhaps due to sampling gaps. It inhabits low and high altitudes (sea level to 1,100 m elevation). It is widely distributed in Atlantic Forest, Amazon Forest, Cerrado, and Pantanal regions (Cunha &amp; Nascimento 1978; Martins &amp; Oliveira 1998; Marques et al. 2001; Argôlo 2004; Marques et al. 2005; Nogueira et al. 2010). Recoder et al. (2011) reported the occurrence of this species only in riparian forest inside Cerrado. Inside Caatinga, It can be found on arboreal and bushy vegetation in dry or moist forests and in rocky savanna vegetation known as campo rupestres in the Chapada Diamantina highlands with a strong Cerrado influence, in Bahia State (Juncá 2005). It has semi-arboreal habits, is nocturnal, and feeds on frogs (Marques et al. 2001; Argôlo 2004; Guedes 2006).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFEDFFF9FF09FF19FADD1104	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFEDFFF9FF09FDEBFDB710B1.text	465F3358FFEDFFF9FF09FDEBFDB710B1.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Lioheterophis iheringi Amaral 1934	<div><p>Lioheterophis iheringi Amaral, 1934</p><p>(Fig. 28.4)</p><p>Caatinga endemic species. It is known only for the type-locality in Paraíba State, municipality of Campina Grande. This area is situated on the Borborema Plateau, 560 m elevation, with strong influence of the adjacent Atlantic Forest. It is known only by one specimen (lost holotype, TBG pers. obs.) collected in 1934 (Amaral 1934). Therefore it appears to be extremely rare. Apparently inhabits forested areas because the single locality situated in agreste, near coastal Atlantic Forest, is wetter than the adjacent semi-arid lowlands. Information about natural history of this species is not available.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFEDFFF9FF09FDEBFDB710B1	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFEDFFF9FF09FC74FECE163E.text	465F3358FFEDFFF9FF09FC74FECE163E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Lygophis dilepis (Cope 1862) Cope 1862	<div><p>Lygophis dilepis (Cope, 1862) “Cobra-de-cadarço”</p><p>(Figs. 16.3 and 29.1)</p><p>Recorded in the states of Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Bahia, and Minas Gerais. It can be found both in low or upland localities, with maximum recorded altitude of 850 m in the Araripe Plateau, Ceará State. This species is also recorded in the Cerrado region (Nogueira et al. 2010, 2011). Most records are in xerophytic caatinga that includes bushy, herbaceous and arboreal vegetation, and we believe that this snake also inhabits xerophitic vegetation in highlands. It has terrestrial habits, is diurnal, and feeds on frogs (Dixon 1989; Guedes 2006).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFEDFFF9FF09FC74FECE163E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFEDFFF9FF09FA01FE721580.text	465F3358FFEDFFF9FF09FA01FE721580.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Lygophis paucidens (Hoge 1853) Hoge 1853	<div><p>Lygophis paucidens (Hoge, 1853) “Cobra-de-cadarço”</p><p>(Figs. 16.4 and 29.1)</p><p>First record in the Caatinga. Recorded only in three localities, in the states of Piauí and Bahia, in altitudes up to 500 m elevation. It is found mostly in open savannas and grasslands on sandy soils, and is considered a Cerrado endemic snake (Nogueira et al. 2010, 2011). It probably occurs in areas with relictual cerrado enclaves, including those in uplands of the Chapada Diamantina complex. It has terrestrial habits, is diurnal, and feeds on frogs and lizards (Dixon 1989).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFEDFFF9FF09FA01FE721580	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFEDFFF9FF09F95DFB9A14FC.text	465F3358FFEDFFF9FF09F95DFB9A14FC.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Oxyrhopus guibei Hoge and Romano 1978	<div><p>Oxyrhopus guibei Hoge and Romano, 1978 “Falsa-coral”</p><p>(Figs. 16.5 and 29.2)</p><p>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).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFEDFFF9FF09F95DFB9A14FC	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFEAFFFEFF09FC50FD6C178E.text	465F3358FFEAFFFEFF09FC50FD6C178E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Oxyrhopus	<div><p>Oxyrhopus sp. “Falsa-coral”</p><p>(Figs. 16.8 and 29.2)</p><p>Recorded only in Ibiapaba-Araripe Plateau, Ceará State. It occurs in highlands, altitude above 600 m elevation, in moist relictual forests (Loebmann &amp; Haddad 2010; Ribeiro et al. 2012). The species has terrestrial habits, is nocturnal, and feeds on mammals and lizards.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFEAFFFEFF09FC50FD6C178E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFEAFFFEFF09FF19FED312E0.text	465F3358FFEAFFFEFF09FF19FED312E0.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Oxyrhopus petolarius (Linnaeus 1758) Linnaeus 1758	<div><p>Oxyrhopus petolarius (Linnaeus, 1758) “Falsa-coral”</p><p>(Figs. 16.6 and 29.2)</p><p>First record in the Caatinga. It was recorded in the states of Paraíba, Bahia, and Minas Gerais. Occurs in highlands and contact areas with the Cerrado and Atlantic Forest region. Inhabits mostly areas between 250 and 618 m elevation. Its is a widespread snake along the Atlantic Forest, Amazon Forest, Cerrado, and Pantanal (Cunha &amp; Nascimento 1978; Martins &amp; Oliveira 1998; Marques et al. 2001, 2005; Nogueira et al. 2010). Inside Caatinga, it appears to be found in moist relictual forest in highlands and bush and arboreal caatinga, with Atlantic Forest influence, in agreste. The species has terrestrial habits, is nocturnal, and feeds mammals and lizards (Marques et al. 2001, 2005).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFEAFFFEFF09FF19FED312E0	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFEAFFFEFF09FDC7FE64106D.text	465F3358FFEAFFFEFF09FDC7FE64106D.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Oxyrhopus rhombifer Dumeril, Bibron and Dumeril 1854	<div><p>Oxyrhopus rhombifer Duméril, Bibron and Duméril, 1854 “Falsa-coral”</p><p>(Figs. 16.7 and 29.2)</p><p>It was recorded only in Bahia State, municipalities of Mucugê and Paulo Afonso (Handam &amp; Lira-da-Silva 2008; Freitas et al. 2012a). Mucugê is situated in the Diamantina Plateau with more than 800 m elevation and Paulo Afonso has 243 m elevation. It occurs in open areas in the Cerrado, Pantanal, and Pampas (Marques et al. 2005; Bérnils et al. 2008; França et al. 2008; Nogueira et al. 2010). We believe it inhabits grasslands habitats and open xerophitic vegetation in the Caatinga. It has terrestrial habits, is nocturnal, and feeds on mammals and lizards (Marques et al. 2005).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFEAFFFEFF09FDC7FE64106D	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFEAFFFEFF09FB71FD1E1510.text	465F3358FFEAFFFEFF09FB71FD1E1510.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Oxyrhopus trigeminus Dumeril, Bibron and Dumeril 1854	<div><p>Oxyrhopus trigeminus Duméril, Bibron and Duméril, 1854 “Falsa-coral”</p><p>(Figs. 17.1 and 29.3)</p><p>It is distributed in all states of the Caatinga. It was recorded in a wide range of areas, from low to high altitudes (sea level to 1,100 m elevation). It is also widespread in the Atlantic Forest, Cerrado, and Pantanal regions (Argôlo 2004; Marques et al. 2005; Nogueira et al. 2010). It is distributed in all phytophysiognomies of the Caatinga, including cerrado enclaves, but is absent from forested habitats. The species has terrestrial habits, is nocturnal, and feeds on mammals and lizards (Marques et al. 2005).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFEAFFFEFF09FB71FD1E1510	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFEAFFFEFF09F9D7FD4214C5.text	465F3358FFEAFFFEFF09F9D7FD4214C5.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Philodryas aestiva (Duméril, Bibron and Duméril 1854) Dumeril, Bibron and Dumeril 1854	<div><p>Philodryas aestiva (Duméril, Bibron and Duméril, 1854) “Cobra-de-cipó-verde”</p><p>(Figs. 17.2 and 29.4)</p><p>Recorded only in Bahia State, municipality of Mucugê. This area is inside Diamantina Plateau, 980 m elevation. It is recorded in the Cerrado, Pampas, and highland grasslands of the Atlantic Forest (Marques et al. 2001; Bérnils et al. 2008; Nogueira et al. 2010, 2011). The area where this species occurs in Caatinga has a complex of phytophysiognomies including caatinga, cerrado, and moist forest vegetation (Juncá et al. 2005; Freitas et al. 2012a). Relatively common in open, grassland habitats in the Cerrado region (Argôlo &amp; Freitas 2002; Freitas &amp; Silva 2007; Valdujo et al. 2009; Nogueira et al. 2010), and we believe it inhabits relictual, open, upland rocky savanna enclaves named campos rupestres in the Caatinga. The species has semi-arboreal habits, is diurnal, and feeds on frogs and lizards (Marques et al. 2001).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFEAFFFEFF09F9D7FD4214C5	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFE8FFFCFF09FF19FE1212B8.text	465F3358FFE8FFFCFF09FF19FE1212B8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Philodryas agassizii (Jan 1863) Jan 1863	<div><p>Philodryas agassizii (Jan, 1863)</p><p>(Figs. 17.3 and 29.4)</p><p>We have only one record for this species in municipality of Caitité, Bahia State. This area is part of the Diamantina Plateau complex, 824 m elevation. It is also recorded in Cerrado (Nogueira et al. 2010) and Pampas regions where is known from open, grassy areas (Marques et al. 2006), and we believe this species can be found in relictual, open, rocky savanna enclaves named campos rupestres in the Caatinga. It has terrestrial habits, is diurnal, and feeds on spiders (Marques et al. 2006).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFE8FFFCFF09FF19FE1212B8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFE8FFFCFF09FE7FFE771025.text	465F3358FFE8FFFCFF09FE7FFE771025.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Philodryas nattereri Steindachner 1870	<div><p>Philodryas nattereri Steindachner, 1870 “Corre-campo, corredeira”</p><p>(Figs. 17.4 and 30.1)</p><p>It is distributed in all portions of the Caatinga. It was recorded in low and high altitude areas (sea level to 1,100 m elevation) and was abundant and widespread. It is also widely distributed in Cerrado and Pantanal (Marques et al. 2005; Nogueira et al. 2010, 2011), along most of the South American diagonal of open areas. It is distributed in all phytophysiognomies inside Caatinga, including cerrado enclaves. It seems to occur only marginally in forested habitats. It has semi-arboreal habits, is diurnal, and feeds on vertebrates (Vitt &amp; Vangilder 1983; Marques et al. 2005; Guedes 2006).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFE8FFFCFF09FE7FFE771025	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFE8FFFCFF09FC08FDE117F6.text	465F3358FFE8FFFCFF09FC08FDE117F6.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Philodryas olfersii (Lichtenstein 1823) Lichtenstein 1823	<div><p>Philodryas olfersii (Lichtenstein, 1823) “Cobra-de-cipó-verde”</p><p>(Figs. 17.5 and 30.2)</p><p>It was recorded in all portions of the Caatinga. It is distributed in low and high altitudes (sea level to 1,100 m elevation) and is an abundant species. It is also widely distributed in the Atlantic Forest, Cerrado, Pantanal, and Pampas (Marques et al. 2001, 2005; Bérnils et al. 2008; Nogueira et al. 2010). It can be found in all phytophysiognomies of the Caatinga, however it is more often found in forests or forest borders (Vitt 1980; Hamdan &amp; Lira-da-Silva 2012; Nogueira et al. 2011), and may thus be absent from areas widely dominated by open sand dunes or savannas. It has semi-arboreal habits, is diurnal, and feeds on vertebrates (Vitt &amp; Vangilder 1983; Marques et al. 2001, 2005).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFE8FFFCFF09FC08FDE117F6	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFE8FFFCFF09FAB9FF15157C.text	465F3358FFE8FFFCFF09FAB9FF15157C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Philodryas patagoniensis (Girard 1858) Girard 1858	<div><p>Philodryas patagoniensis (Girard, 1858) “Corre-campo, corredeira”</p><p>(Figs. 17.6 and 29.4)</p><p>Recorded in the states of Rio Grande do Norte, Sergipe, Bahia, and North Minas Gerais. It inhabits low altitude areas, between sea level to 500 m elevation. It is a widely distributed species that occurs in Atlantic Forest, Cerrado, Pampas, and Pantanal regions (Marques et al. 2001, 2005; Bérnils et al. 2008; Nogueira et al. 2010), often in open, grassy habitats. The records of this species in Caatinga are sparse, probably related to herbaceous and grassy vegetation. The species has terrestrial habits, is diurnal, and feeds on vertebrates (Marques et al. 2001, 2005).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFE8FFFCFF09FAB9FF15157C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFE8FFFCFF09F942FC6714C5.text	465F3358FFE8FFFCFF09F942FC6714C5.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Phimophis guerini (Duméril, Bibron and Duméril 1854) Dumeril, Bibron and Dumeril 1854	<div><p>Phimophis guerini (Duméril, Bibron and Duméril, 1854)</p><p>(Figs. 17.7 and 30.3)</p><p>Recorded in the states of Piauí and Bahia. It can be found on low and high altitudes (sea level to 830 m elevation). It is widespread in the Cerrado, Pampas, and Pantanal (Marques et al. 2005; Bérnils et al. 2008; Nogueira et al. 2010), occurring in open habitats such as grasslands and savannas (Nogueira et al. 2011). Probably associated with latosoil areas (CN pers. obs.) with caatinga and cerrado vegetation cover inside Caatinga. It has fossorial habits, is nocturnal, and feeds on lizards and mammals (Marques et al. 2005).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFE8FFFCFF09F942FC6714C5	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFE9FFFDFF09FF19FE6412B8.text	465F3358FFE9FFFDFF09FF19FE6412B8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pseudoboa nigra (Duméril, Bibron and Duméril 1854) Dumeril, Bibron and Dumeril 1854	<div><p>Pseudoboa nigra (Duméril, Bibron and Duméril, 1854) “Muçurana, cobra-de-leite, cobra-preta”</p><p>(Figs. 17.8 and 30.4)</p><p>Recorded for all regions of the Caatinga. It occurs from sea level to 900 m elevation. It is also distributed in Atlantic Forest, Cerrado and Pantanal (Marques et al. 2001, 2005; Nogueira et al. 2010). It was not found in the dunes of São Francisco River. It can be found in areas with bush, arboreal and herbaceous caatinga, cerrado vegetation, and moist relictual forests. It has terrestrial habits, is nocturnal, and feeds on lizards and snakes (Marques et al. 2005).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFE9FFFDFF09FF19FE6412B8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFE9FFFDFF09FE7FFDEB1025.text	465F3358FFE9FFFDFF09FE7FFDEB1025.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Psomophis joberti (Sauvage 1884) Sauvage 1884	<div><p>Psomophis joberti (Sauvage, 1884)</p><p>(Figs. 18.1 and 30.3)</p><p>It was recorded in the states of Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, and Bahia. It occurs in low altitude in the semi-arid Caatinga and its contact with Cerrado areas, with a single record in high altitudes in Ceará State, from sea level to 830 m elevation. It is also recorded from many localities in the Cerrado (Myers &amp; Cadle 1994; Nogueira et al. 2010, 2011). The records of this species, especially in the core of the Caatinga, are scarce, as it seems to inhabit isolated open areas (Myers &amp; Cadle 1994). It has terrestrial habits, is nocturnal, and feeds on frogs and lizards (Myers &amp; Cadle 1994).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFE9FFFDFF09FE7FFDEB1025	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFE9FFFDFF09FC08FB7F176B.text	465F3358FFE9FFFDFF09FC08FB7F176B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Rodriguesophis chui Rodrigues 1993	<div><p>Rodriguesophis chui Rodrigues, 1993</p><p>(Figs. 18.2 and 31.1)</p><p>Caatinga endemic species. It is known only from the type-locality, Santo Inácio village in municipality of Gentio do Ouro, Bahia State. The area has 475 m elevation. It has a restricted distribution on sandy dunes of the right bank of the São Francisco, covered with herbaceous and bushy caatinga on sandy soils (Rodrigues 1993). It has fossorial and psamophylous habits, is diurnal and nocturnal, and feeds on lizards (Rodrigues 1993).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFE9FFFDFF09FC08FB7F176B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFE9FFFDFF09FB4DFAF216CC.text	465F3358FFE9FFFDFF09FB4DFAF216CC.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Rodriguesophis iglesiasi (Gomes 1915) Gomes 1915	<div><p>Rodriguesophis iglesiasi (Gomes, 1915)</p><p>(Figs. 18.3 and 31.1)</p><p>Recorded in sparse localities in the states of Piauí and Bahia, including the São Francisco River dunes, and Cerrado-Caatinga contact areas. All records are in low altitudes (less than 500 m elevation). It is also recorded in the northeastern portion of the Cerrado region (Nogueira et al. 2010, 2011), close to the Caatinga, mostly in areas covered by sparse savannas on sandy soils (Recoder et al. 2011), similar to sandy areas inside the Caatinga. It has fossorial and psammophylous habits, is diurnal and nocturnal, and feeds on lizards (Rodrigues 1993).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFE9FFFDFF09FB4DFAF216CC	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFE9FFFDFF09F9B2FD341431.text	465F3358FFE9FFFDFF09F9B2FD341431.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Rodriguesophis scriptorcibatus Rodrigues 1993	<div><p>Rodriguesophis scriptorcibatus Rodrigues, 1993</p><p>(Figs. 18.4 and 31.1)</p><p>Caatinga endemic species. Known only from the type-locality Ibiraba village municipality of Barra, in Bahia State, on the left bank of the São Francisco river, 410 m elevation. It was recorded in an area covered with on herbaceous and bushy caatinga on sandy soils (Rodrigues 1993). It has fossorial and psamophylous habits, is diurnal and nocturnal, and feeds on lizards (Rodrigues 1993).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFE9FFFDFF09F9B2FD341431	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFF7FFE3FF09FF19FAE91294.text	465F3358FFF7FFE3FF09FF19FAE91294.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Sibon nebulata (Linnaeus 1758) Linnaeus 1758	<div><p>Sibon nebulata (Linnaeus, 1758) “Dormideira”</p><p>(Figs. 18.5 and 31.1)</p><p>This species is recorded only for a few localities in Ceará State. It was recorded only above 600 m elevation in isolated plateaus. It is also recorded in Amazonia and Atlantic Forest regions (Cunha &amp; Nascimento 1978; Martins &amp; Oliveira 1998; Freire 1998). According to Loebmann and Haddad (2010), it is found on relictual moist forests in Caatinga. It has semi-arboreal habits, is nocturnal, and feeds on mollusks (Cunha &amp; Nascimento 1978).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFF7FFE3FF09FF19FAE91294	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFF7FFE3FF09FE5BFE0811FD.text	465F3358FFF7FFE3FF09FE5BFE0811FD.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Sibynomorphus mikanii (Schlegel 1837) Schlegel 1837	<div><p>Sibynomorphus mikanii (Schlegel, 1837) “Dormideira”</p><p>(Figs. 18.6 and 31.2)</p><p>It was recorded in the states of Ceará, Bahia, and Minas Gerais. Except for two records in contact areas, all other records are above 560 m elevation. It is also widely distributed in the Atlantic Forest, Cerrado, and Pantanal regions (Marques et al. 2001, 2005; Nogueira et al. 2010). Inside Caatinga, it inhabits open areas either in transitional, next to Atlantic Forest, and on highland areas. It has terrestrial habits, is nocturnal, and feeds on mollusks (Marques et al. 2001).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFF7FFE3FF09FE5BFE0811FD	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFF7FFE3FF09FCC0FCFC1723.text	465F3358FFF7FFE3FF09FCC0FCFC1723.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Sibynomorphus neuwiedii (Ihering 1911) Ihering 1911	<div><p>Sibynomorphus neuwiedii (Ihering, 1911) “Dormideira”</p><p>(Figs. 18.7 and 31.2)</p><p>It was recorded in the states of Paraíba and Bahia. All records are from highland areas from, 500 to 1,030 m elevation. It is widely distributed in the Atlantic Forest (Marques et al. 2001). It is a typical forested area species, and its distribution in Caatinga may be restricted to humid, elevated forest enclaves. It has semi-arboreal habits, is nocturnal, and feeds on mollusks (Marques et al. 2001).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFF7FFE3FF09FCC0FCFC1723	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFF7FFE3FF09FB05FC0F1684.text	465F3358FFF7FFE3FF09FB05FC0F1684.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Siphlophis compressus (Daudin 1803) Daudin 1803	<div><p>Siphlophis compressus (Daudin, 1803)</p><p>(Figs. 18.8 and 31.3)</p><p>It was recorded in the states of Ceará, Sergipe, and Bahia in Caatinga. The maximum recorded altitude was 188 m (Guedes et al. 2011). It is also found in the Atlantic Forest and Amazonia (Marques et al. 2001; Guedes et al. 2011). Inside Caatinga, it occurs in contact areas with adjacent forested areas, with a single record in semi-arid caatinga in Fortaleza (Ceará State). It occurs in arboreal caatinga and forested areas (Guedes et al. 2011). It has semi-arboreal habits, is nocturnal, and feeds on lizards (Marques et al. 2001).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFF7FFE3FF09FB05FC0F1684	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFF7FFE3FF09FA6AFB7A15C9.text	465F3358FFF7FFE3FF09FA6AFB7A15C9.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Siphlophis leucocephalus	<div><p>Siphlophis leucocephalus (Günther, 18673)</p><p>(Figs. 19.1 and 31.3)</p><p>It was recently recorded for the first time in Bahia State, municipality of Mucugê by Freitas et al. (2012a). This is a highland area around 1,100 m elevation, in the Diamantina Plateau, and includes a complex set of phytophisiognomies. It is also distributed in the Cerrado region (Nogueira et al. 2010, 2011) and in the Atlantic Forest region (Argôlo 2004). It has semi-arboreal habits, is nocturnal, and feeds on lizards.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFF7FFE3FF09FA6AFB7A15C9	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFF7FFE0FF09F8ACFE641253.text	465F3358FFF7FFE0FF09F8ACFE641253.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Taeniophallus affinis (Günther 1858) Gunther 1858	<div><p>Taeniophallus affinis (Günther, 1858)</p><p>(Figs. 19.2 and 31.3)</p><p>It occurs in municipalities of Ubajara and Pacatuba (Ceará State), and Elísio Medrado (Bahia State). In Ceará it occurs in highlands of the Ibiapaba-Araripe Plateau and in the Aratanha Range, with altitudes from 735 to 900 m, and in Bahia it occurs in the Jibóia Range, from 600 to 839 m. It is recorded also in the Atlantic Forest (Marques et al. 2001). It is a typical forest species (Marques 1998; Marques et al. 2001; Barbo et al. 2011; Zaher et al. 2011) with restricted distribution in Caatinga. It inhabits relictual high altitude moist forests as recorded by Loebmann and Haddad (2010) in Ceará. The species has cryptozoic and terrestrial habits, is diurnal and feeds on frogs (Marques et al. 2001).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFF7FFE0FF09F8ACFE641253	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFF4FFE0FF09FE15FB061024.text	465F3358FFF4FFE0FF09FE15FB061024.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Taeniophallus occipitalis (Jan 1963) Jan 1963	<div><p>Taeniophallus occipitalis (Jan, 1963)</p><p>(Figs. 19.3 and 31.3)</p><p>It is distributed in the states of Piauí, Ceará, Pernambuco, Sergipe, and Bahia. At the central portion of the Caatinga it inhabits high altitude areas up to 1,200 m elevation. On contact areas this snake inhabits lower areas below 500 m. It also occurs in the Cerrado, Pampas, and Pantanal (Marques et al. 2005; Bérnils et al. 2008; Nogueira et al. 2010, 2011). In highlands of the Ceará State was recorded in arboreal caatinga (Loebman &amp; Haddad 2010) and in the Diamantina Plateau in Bahia State (Juncá 2005), and in the Serra de Itabaiana National Park in Sergipe State it was recorded in relictual moist forests. In Piauí State it was recorded only in low altitudes in areas where cerrado phytophysiognomies are predominant (Rocha &amp; Prudente 2010). It is typical of open areas along its wide range in the Cerrado region (Recoder &amp; Nogueira 2007; Valdujo et al. 2009; Recoder et al. 2011; Nogueira et al. 2011). It has cryptozoic and terrestrial habits, is diurnal and feeds on frogs and lizards (Marques et al. 2001).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFF4FFE0FF09FE15FB061024	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFF4FFE0FF09FC0BFECA178D.text	465F3358FFF4FFE0FF09FC0BFECA178D.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Thamnodynastes almae Franco and Ferreira 2003	<div><p>Thamnodynastes almae Franco and Ferreira, 2003 “Jararaquinha”</p><p>(Figs. 19.4 and 31.4)</p><p>Caatinga endemic species. It was recorded in the states of Ceará, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, and Bahia (Joventino et al. 2009; Guedes 2010; Jorge &amp; Freire 2011). It is known from areas below 400 m elevation. Although the records are sparse, available data indicate the association to xerophitic phytophysiognomies with rocky soils and inselbergs (Guedes 2010). It has semi-arboreal habits, is nocturnal and feeds on frogs (Franco &amp; Ferreira 2003).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFF4FFE0FF09FC0BFECA178D	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFF4FFE0FF09F9D9FBD0149C.text	465F3358FFF4FFE0FF09F9D9FBD0149C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Thamnodynastes hypoconia (Cope 1860) Cope 1860	<div><p>Thamnodynastes hypoconia (Cope, 1860) “Jararaquinha”</p><p>(Figs. 19.5 and 31.4)</p><p>First record in the Caatinga. The few records for this species were from the states of Piauí, Bahia and Minas Gerais. It was recorded only in areas with elevation lower than 800 m. It also occurs in the Atlantic Forest, Cerrado, and Pampas regions (Marques et al. 2001; Bérnils et al. 2008; Nogueira et al. 2010, 2011). In the Caatinga it probably inhabits open areas including wetlands and grasslands close to water bodies, as recorded in other portions of its range (Recoder &amp; Nogueira 2007; Valdujo et al. 2009; Recoder et al. 2011; Nogueira et al. 2011). It has semiarboreal habits, is nocturnal and feeds on frogs and lizards (Marques et al. 2001).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFF4FFE0FF09F9D9FBD0149C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFF4FFE0FF09FB70FE4F1517.text	465F3358FFF4FFE0FF09FB70FE4F1517.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Thamnodynastes nattereri (Mikan 1828) Mikan 1828	<div><p>Thamnodynastes cf. nattereri (Mikan, 1828) . “Jararaquinha”</p><p>(Figs. 32.1)</p><p>First record in the Caatinga. It is known only from the municipality Miguel Calmon, Bahia State. This single specimen was collected on the slopes towards the Diamantina Plateau, 532 to 800 m elevation. It is also recorded to the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado (Franco &amp; Ferreira 2003). It may inhabit open areas chacterized by open grasslands and savannas (F. Franco pers. comm.). The species has semi-arboreal habits, is nocturnal and feeds on frogs (Franco &amp; Ferreira 2003).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFF4FFE0FF09FB70FE4F1517	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFF2FFE6FF09FC08FC77176B.text	465F3358FFF2FFE6FF09FC08FC77176B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Thamnodynastes	<div><p>Thamnodynastes sp. ( Thamnodynastes sp. 2, sensu Franco &amp; Ferreira 2002) “Jararaquinha”</p><p>(Figs. 19.8 and 32.2)</p><p>Caatinga endemic species. It is the most abundant of the genus and it is distributed in all portions of the Caatinga. There are records from sea level to the Diamantina Plateau (ca. 1,000 m elevation). It can be found in all types of caatinga vegetation, and also in cerrado and forest enclaves within the Caatinga. It has terrestrial habits, is nocturnal and feeds on frogs (Vanzolini et al. 1980; Guedes 2006).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFF2FFE6FF09FC08FC77176B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFF2FFE6FF09FF19FEEA12E0.text	465F3358FFF2FFE6FF09FF19FEEA12E0.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Thamnodynastes pallidus (Linnaeus 1758) Linnaeus 1758	<div><p>Thamnodynastes pallidus (Linnaeus, 1758) . “Jararaquinha”</p><p>(Figs. 19.6 and 31.4)</p><p>Recorded in the states of Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe, and Bahia. It occurs from highlands in Sergipe and Bahia (maximum 800 m elevation) to low altitudes in contact areas with the Atlantic Forest. It was redescribed and its distribution was restricted to the Amazon Forest region (Bailey et al. 2005). However, this species was found also in forested enclaves within the Caatinga region, and presents a disjunct range as mentioned by Franco and Ferreira (2002). It is a forested area species that can be found in relictual moist forests on highland, and bush and arboreal caatinga in contact areas next to the Atlantic Forest. It has terrestrial habits, is nocturnal and feeds on frogs (Bailey et al. 2005).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFF2FFE6FF09FF19FEEA12E0	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFF2FFE6FF09FDC7FE011025.text	465F3358FFF2FFE6FF09FDC7FE011025.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Thamnodynastes sertanejo Bailey, Thomas and Silva Jr. 2005	<div><p>Thamnodynastes sertanejo Bailey, Thomas and Silva Jr., 2005 “Jararaquinha, Cipó-do-papo-amarelo”</p><p>(Figs. 19.7 and 32.1)</p><p>Caatinga endemic species. Recorded in Paraíba, Pernambuco, Bahia, and north Minas Gerais. All records are in low altitudes, maximum 657 m elevation. It inhabits open areas with bushy and arboreal vegetation on semi-arid lowlands typical and widespread in the Caatinga. It has arboreal habits, is nocturnal and feeds on frogs (Vanzolini et al. 1980; Bailey et al. 2005).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFF2FFE6FF09FDC7FE011025	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFF2FFE6FF09FB4DFB891510.text	465F3358FFF2FFE6FF09FB4DFB891510.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Tropidodryas striaticeps (Cope 1869) Cope 1869	<div><p>Tropidodryas striaticeps (Cope, 1869)</p><p>(Figs. 20.1 and 32.3)</p><p>Recorded in the states Bahia and Minas Gerais. It is distributed from lower areas below 500 m in Atlantic Forest contact to highlands on the eastern portion of the Caatinga. It is also recorded in the Atlantic Forest region (Guedes &amp; Marques 2011). It apparently inhabits arboreal and bushy caatinga (semi-arid lowands) to humid forest next to Atlantic Forest and in relictual highland forests (Handam &amp; Lira-da-Silva 2007; Guedes &amp; Marques 2011). It was said to occur in cerrado and arboreal caatinga in highlands of the Diamantina Plateau (Freitas &amp; Silva 2007) . It has semi-arboreal habits, is diurnal and feeds on lizards and mammals (Marques et al. 2001).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFF2FFE6FF09FB4DFB891510	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFF2FFE6FF09F9D7FB7D149D.text	465F3358FFF2FFE6FF09F9D7FB7D149D.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Xenodon merremii (Wagler 1824) Wagler 1824	<div><p>Xenodon merremii (Wagler, 1824) “Cobra-boca-de-caçapa, jararaca-malha-de-cascavel, goipeba”</p><p>(Figs. 20.2 and 32.4)</p><p>This is the most abundant snake species of the region (based on collection data) and was recorded in all states and all areas inside Caatinga. It can be found in low and high localities; from sea level to 1,200 m elevation. It is also widely distributed in the Atlantic Forest, Cerrado, Pantanal, and Pampas regions (Marques et al. 2001, 2005; Bérnils et al. 2008; Nogueira et al. 2010, 2011). The available records indicate that the species can be found in forested and open areas, and all phytophysiognomies within the Caatinga region, including cerrado and moist forest enclaves. It has terretrial habits, is diurnal and feeds on frogs (Marques et al. 2001).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFF2FFE6FF09F9D7FB7D149D	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFF3FFE7FF09FB4DFAFB1534.text	465F3358FFF3FFE7FF09FB4DFAFB1534.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Xenodon nattereri (Steindachner 1867) Steindachner 1867	<div><p>Xenodon nattereri (Steindachner, 1867) “Cobra-nariguda”</p><p>(Figs. 20.3 and 32.3)</p><p>The single record of this species on Caatinga is from municipality of Rio de Contas, Bahia State (Argôlo 2002). This area is part of Diamantina Plateau complex, 1,050 m elevation. IIt occurs widely in the Cerrado, from where it is considered endemic (Nogueira et al. 2010, 2011), and associated to sparse savannas and grasslands (see França et al. 2008; Sawaya et al. 2008; Valdujo et al. 2009). We have no information on habitat use in the Caatinga but we believe ths species is found in Cerrado vegetation enclaves (incuding campos rupestres) in the Diamantina Plateau, as it is know only from grassy open areas in the Cerrado (Sawaya et al. 2008; Valdujo et al. 2009; Nogueira et al. 2010). It has terrestrial habits, is diurnal and feeds on lizards and squamate eggs (Sawaya et al. 2008).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFF3FFE7FF09FB4DFAFB1534	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
465F3358FFF3FFE7FF09F9FBFF3B14C5.text	465F3358FFF3FFE7FF09F9FBFF3B14C5.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Xenopholis undulatus (Jensen 1900) Jensen 1900	<div><p>Xenopholis undulatus (Jensen, 1900)</p><p>(Figs. 20.4 and 32.3)</p><p>It was recorded in the states of Ceará, Paraíba, and Alagoas only in highland areas above 850 m elevation (Borges- Nojosa &amp; Lima 2009; Loebmann &amp; Haddad 2010; Filho &amp; Montingelli 2011), with a single record in contact areas next to the Atlantic Forest, 20 m elevation. It is a rare snake in the field and collections and is considered endemic to the Cerrado region (Nogueira et al. 2010, 2011) where it apparently inhabits riparian forests (CN pers. obs). In the Caatinga, this snake seems to be associated to moist relictual, forested areas in isolated plateaus, and to interior dry forest (agreste) close to the Atlantic coast. It has cryptozoic habits, is diurnal and feeds on frogs (TBG pers. obs).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358FFF3FFE7FF09F9FBFF3B14C5	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Guedes, Thaís B.;Nogueira, Cristiano;Marques, Otavio A. V.	Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano, Marques, Otavio A. V. (2014): Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 1-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
