<documentid="D11071701B405473A8811055694FBC30"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="465F3358FFDCFFC8FF09FF5FFD5C1191"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="Micrurus lemniscatus Linnaeus 1758"docType="treatment"docVersion="7"lastPageNumber="27"masterDocId="BA664B20FFC6FFD2FF9EFF81FFF51313"masterDocTitle="Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil"masterLastPageNumber="93"masterPageNumber="1"pageNumber="27"updateTime="1732576599534"updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
<mods:titleid="D8E4A106D8CE4039DFAAE055A3FDA6BE">Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil</mods:title>
is distributed in Amazon Forest, Cerrado, and Atlantic Forest (
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& Nascimento 1978
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). Inside the Caatinga, this species may inhabit forested areas in highlands, and it has been previously found on arboreal and bushy caatinga vegetation in the Araripe highlands, Ceará State (
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2011). It has fossorial habits, is nocturnal and diurnal, and feeds mostly on elongated vertebrates (
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& Nascimento 1978
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