Apostolepis gaboi Rodrigues, 1992

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

Apostolepis gaboi Rodrigues, 1992

(Figs. 13.8 and 26.3)

Caatinga endemic species. It is known only for the state of Bahia, municipalities of Barra and Pilão Arcado, on depositional lowlands from 394 to 406 m elevation, close to the eastern banks of the São Francisco river channel. It was recorded only in bushy and herbaceous caatinga on dunes and sandy soil ( Rodrigues 1992). It has fossorial and psammophylous habits, is diurnal and nocturnal, and feeds on elongated vertebrates ( Ferrarezzi et al. 2005).