<documentid="2186D4D1715E090331C0E8E490D90E37"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="465F3358FFE5FFF1FF09FADDFDDD1580"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="Atractus maculatus Gunther 1858"docType="treatment"docVersion="7"lastPageNumber="36"masterDocId="BA664B20FFC6FFD2FF9EFF81FFF51313"masterDocTitle="Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil"masterLastPageNumber="93"masterPageNumber="1"pageNumber="36"updateTime="1732576599534"updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
<mods:titleid="8F2F87B86F2C1C871F9E631A4DFF362F">Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil</mods:title>
<paragraphid="CE49824EFFE5FFF1FF09FAFFFE751684"blockId="35.[151,621,1372,1431]"box="[151,384,1406,1431]"pageId="35"pageNumber="36">(Figs. 14.1 and 26.4)</paragraph>
was previously recorded in state of Alagoas and Pernambuco in Atlantic Forest enclaves (
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). It was collected in arboreal caatinga with sandy soil, inside the semi-arid region (G. Nunes pers. comm.) and shows considerable differences in color pattern compared to
(P. Passos pers. comm.). It has cryptozoic and fossorial habits, is diurnal and nocturnal, and feeds mostly on earthworms (
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