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<mods:titleid="817CEF6701421827E0526DA1C98E559F">Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil</mods:title>
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<paragraphid="CE49824EFFE9FFFDFF09F9D4FE75157D"blockId="47.[151,736,1587,1646]"box="[151,384,1621,1646]"pageId="47"pageNumber="48">(Figs. 18.4 and 31.1)</paragraph>
Caatinga endemic species. Known only from the type-locality Ibiraba village municipality of Barra, in Bahia State, on the left bank of the São Francisco river,
elevation. It was recorded in an area covered with on herbaceous and bushy caatinga on sandy soils (
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). It has fossorial and psamophylous habits, is diurnal and nocturnal, and feeds on lizards (
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