<documentid="25705D3F977FDECD42A9D6F7412CA318"ID-CLB-Dataset="36791"ID-DOI="10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1"ID-GBIF-Dataset="994b97ae-8a03-4726-86f7-ce51e39578a4"ID-ISSN="1175-5326"ID-Zenodo-Dep="287111"ID-ZooBank="A683CABE-4305-47A4-A063-03FDF93182C0"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.metadata_approvedBy="felipe"IM.tables_requiresApprovalFor="existingObjects,plazi"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="felipe"checkinTime="1460913365771"checkinUser="plazi"docAuthor="Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano & Marques, Otavio A. V."docDate="2014"docId="465F3358FFE3FFF7FF09F9B2FAAB1479"docLanguage="en"docName="zt03863p093.pdf"docOrigin="Zootaxa 3863 (1)"docStyle="DocumentStyle:5EBBA59367AD13919D70D935FA04F6A3.19:Zootaxa.2013-.monograph"docStyleId="5EBBA59367AD13919D70D935FA04F6A3"docStyleName="Zootaxa.2013-.monograph"docStyleVersion="19"docTitle="Dipsas sazimai Fernandes, Marques and Argolo 2010"docType="treatment"docVersion="7"lastPageNumber="38"masterDocId="BA664B20FFC6FFD2FF9EFF81FFF51313"masterDocTitle="Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil"masterLastPageNumber="93"masterPageNumber="1"pageNumber="38"updateTime="1732576599534"updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
<mods:titleid="14D43CE29DEE9267C328048033730358">Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil</mods:title>
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<paragraphid="CE49824EFFE3FFF7FF09F9D4FE75157D"blockId="37.[151,1001,1587,1646]"box="[151,384,1621,1646]"pageId="37"pageNumber="38">(Figs. 14.5 and 27.2)</paragraph>
It was recorded only in the state of Bahia, municipalities of Elísio Medrado (Serra da Jibóia), Jequié, and Miguel Calmon in Atlantic Forest contact areas up to
complex, where it probably inhabits forested areas, the typical habitat of its congeners (
<bibRefCitationid="AA67FFBFFFE3FFF7FDE5F8AFFCF21455"author="Peters"box="[635,775,1837,1862]"pageId="37"pageNumber="38"refString="Peters, J. A. (1960) The snakes of the subfamily Dipsadinae. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, Univesity of Michigan, 114, 1 - 224."type="journal article"year="1960">Peters 1960</bibRefCitation>
). In contact areas it can be found in xerophitic vegetation next to the Atlantic Forest. It has arboreal habits, is nocturnal, and feeds on mollusks (Fernandes