Trilepida koppesi (Amaral, 1955)

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 : 19

Trilepida koppesi (Amaral, 1955) “Cobra-de-chumbinho”

(Figs. 8.5 and 21.1)

Recorded only in the state of Bahia, district of Cascavel, municipality of Mucugê ( Freitas et al. 2012a). The area is situated in a flat upland area, above 1,100 m elevation, in a section of the Diamantina Plateau covered by forested areas along river valleys and cerrado woodlands (locally known as carrasco) on drier sites ( Freitas & Silva 2007; Freitas et al. 2012a). It is widely distributed along the Cerrado ( Recoder & Nogueira 2007; Sawaya et al. 2008; Valdujo et al. 2009; Nogueira et al. 2010) and Pantanal ( Pinto & Curcio 2011). It has fossorial habits, is nocturnal and diurnal, and feeds mostly on arthropods ( Sawaya et al. 2008; Pinto & Curcio 2011).