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Philodryas agassizii Jan 1863
Description
Philodryas agassizii (Jan, 1863)
(Figs. 17.3 and 29.4)
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).
Notes
Published as part of Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano & Marques, Otavio A. V., 2014, Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil, pp. 1-93 in Zootaxa 3863 (1) on page 47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/287111
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- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/287111 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/BA664B20FFC6FFD2FF9EFF81FFF51313 (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/A683CABE-4305-47A4-A063-03FDF93182C0 (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/465F3358FFE8FFFCFF09FF19FE1212B8 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Colubridae
- Genus
- Philodryas
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Squamata
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Jan
- Species
- agassizii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Philodryas agassizii Jan, 1863 sec. Guedes, Nogueira & Marques, 2014
References
- Nogueira, C., Colli, G. R., Costa, G. & Machado, R. B. (2010) Diversidade de repteis Squamata e evolucao do conhecimento faunistico no Cerrado. In: Diniz, I. R., Marinho-Filho, J., Machado, R. B. & Cavalcanti, R. B. (Eds.), Cerrado: conhecimento cientifico quantitativo como subsidio para acoes de conservacao. Editora UNB, Brasilia, pp. 333 - 375.
- Marques, O. A. V., Stender-Oliveira, F., Sawaya, R. J. & Franca, F. G. R. (2006) Ecology of the colubrid snake Pseudabables agassizii in south-eastern South America. Herpetological Journal, 16, 37 - 45.