Mastigodryas boddaerti (Sentzen, 1796)

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), pp. 1-93 : 32

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scientific name	Mastigodryas boddaerti (Sentzen, 1796)
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Mastigodryas boddaerti (Sentzen, 1796) View in CoL

(Figs. 12.4 and 25.2)

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 & 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 & Lima-Verde 1989; Loebmann & Haddad 2010; Montingelli et al. 2011) inside the Caatinga, and was also found in typical cerrado vegetation in Sete Cidades National Park ( Rocha & Prudente 2010). It has terrestrial habits, is diurnal, and feeds on vertebrates ( Marques et al. 2005).

References

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Marques, O. A. V., Eterovic, A., Strussmann, C. & Sazima, I. (2005) Serpentes do Pantanal: Guia ilustrado. Holos Editora, Ribeirao Preto, 184 pp.

Martins, M. & Oliveira, E. (1998) Natural history of snakes in forests in Manaus region, Central Amazonia, Brazil. Herpetological Natural History, 6, 78 - 150.

Nascimento, F. P. & Lima-Verde, J. S. (1989) Ocorrencia de ofidios de ambientes florestais em enclaves de matas umidas do Ceara (Ophidia, Colubridae). Boletim Museo Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Zoologia, 5, 95 - 100.

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.

Rocha, W. A. & Prudente, A. L. C. (2010) The snake assemblage of Parque Nacional das Sete Cidades, state of Piaui, Brazil. South American Journal of Herpetology, 5, 132 - 142. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.2994 / 057.005.0207