Typhlops yonenagae Rodrigues, 1991
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6125511 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358-FFD2-FFC6-FF09-FB04FBB1168B |
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Plazi |
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Typhlops yonenagae Rodrigues, 1991 |
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Typhlops yonenagae Rodrigues, 1991 View in CoL “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).
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