Atractus caete Passos, Fernandes, Bérnils and Moura-Leite, 2010

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 : 36

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6125627
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358-FFE5-FFF1-FF09-F967FE8C14C5
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Atractus caete Passos, Fernandes, Bérnils and Moura-Leite, 2010
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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).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Reptilia
Order	Squamata
Family	Colubridae
Genus	Atractus

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