Trilepida brasiliensis (Laurent, 1949)

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 brasiliensis (Laurent, 1949) “Cobra-de-chumbinho”

(Figs. 8.4 and 21.2)

Recorded in the states of Ceará, Paraíba, and Bahia. Widely distributed in central Brazilian highlands, ranging from 500 to 717 m elevation, and also recorded marginally in Caatinga lowlands (452 m elevation) in Barreiras, Bahia State. It is considered widely distributed in Cerrado ( Curcio et al. 2002; Nogueira et al. 2010; Pinto & Curcio 2011), associated to savannas over sandy soils ( Vitt et al. 2002). It inhabits portions of cerrado in highlands inside Caatinga (Borges-Nojosa et al. 2009). The species has fossorial habits, is nocturnal and diurnal, and feeds mostly on arthropods ( Curcio et al. 2002; Pinto & Curcio 2011).