Typhlops yonenagae Rodrigues, 1991

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 : 21

Typhlops yonenagae Rodrigues, 1991 “Cobra-cega”

(Figs. 9.1 and 21.3)

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 & 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 & Juncá 2002). It has fossorial and psammophylous habits, is nocturnal and diurnal, and feeds mostly on arthropods ( Rodrigues & Juncá 2002).