Erythrolamprus viridis Günther, 1862

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 : 41

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scientific name	Erythrolamprus viridis Günther, 1862
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Erythrolamprus viridis Günther, 1862 View in CoL “Cobra-verde”

(Figs. 15.4 and 28.1)

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).

References

Guedes, T. B. (2006) Estrutura da comunidade de serpentes de uma area de caatinga do nordeste brasileiro. Unpublished MSThesis, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 76 pp.

Vanzolini, P. E., Costa, A. M. M. R & Vitt, L. J. (1980) Repteis das Caatingas. Academia Brasileira de Ciencias, Rio de Janeiro, 161 pp.