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    Species Accepted

    Apostolepis cearensis Gomes, 1915

    Caatinga Blackhead
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Apostolepis
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Caatinga Blackhead English
      Cobra-Rainha Portuguese
      Cobra-de-Ferrão Portuguese
      Coral-Falsa Portuguese
      Coralzinha Portuguese
      Falsa-Coral Portuguese
      Gomes' Burrowing Snake English

      Treatments

      Source: Catalogue of Life
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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      48 results
      DE CASTRO, DEBORAH PRACIANO; ALINE ARIELA PEREIRA, THAÍS OLIVEIRA & RODRIGO GONZALEZ. (2022). First predation report of the burrowing owl Athene cunicularia (Aves: Strigidae) on the aposematic snake Apostolepis cearensis (Dipsadidae: Elapomorphini), in a coastal area of north-eastern Brazil. Herpetology Notes 15: 253–256.
      PASSOS, P., RODRIGUES, R., PINNA, P. H., WOITOVICZ-CARDOSO, M. A. N. O. E. L. A., FERNANDES, R., & CARAMASCHI, U. (2025). Filling gaps between museum and society: An illustrated catalog of the primary type specimens of Squamata housed in the Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Zootaxa 5698(1): 1-91.
      Entiauspe-Neto, Omar M.; Claudia Koch, Thaís B. Guedes, & Arthur Tiutenko. (2020). Revisiting the taxonomic status of Apostolepis sanctaeritae, a forgotten Neotropical dipsadid snake. Salamandra 56(4): 329–341.
      Gomes, J. F. (1915). Contribuição para o conhecimento dos ophidios do Brasil. 1. Descrição de quatro especies novas e um novo Gênero de opisthóglyphos. 2. Ophidios do Museu Rocha (Ceará). Ann. Paulistas Med. & Chirurg. 4 (6): 121-129.
      França, R. C., Morais, M., França, F. G., Rödder, D., & Solé, M. (2020). Snakes of the Pernambuco Endemism Center, Brazil: diversity, natural history and conservation. ZooKeys 1002: 115.
      Costa, Taís Borges; Daniel Orsi Laranjeiras, Francis Luiz Santos Caldas, Daniel Oliveira Santana, Cristiana Ferreira da Silva, Edna Paulino de Alcântara, Samuel Vieira Brito, Jéssica Yara Galdino, Daniel Oliveira Mesquita, Renato Gomes Faria, Frederico Gustavo Rodrigues França, Robson Waldemar Ávila, Adrian Antonio Garda. (2018). Herpetofauna of protected areas in the Caatinga VII: Aiuaba Ecological Station (Ceará, Brazil). Herpetology Notes 11: 929-941.
      Zaher H, Murphy RW, Arredondo JC, Graboski R, Machado-Filho PR, Mahlow K, et al. (2019). Large-scale molecular phylogeny, morphology, divergence-time estimation, and the fossil record of advanced caenophidian snakes (Squamata: Serpentes). PLoS ONE 14(5): E0216148.
      Freitas, M.A.; D. Veríssimo; V. Uhlig. (2012). Squamate Reptiles of the central Chapada Diamantina, with a focus on the municipality of Mucugê, state of Bahia, Brazil. Check List 8(1):16-22.
      Mesquita , P.; Passos, D.C.; Borges-Nojosa, D. M. & Cechin, S.Z. (2013). Ecologia e história natural das serpentes de uma área de Caatinga no nordeste brasileiro. Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia 53 (8): 99-113.
      Werner. F. (1925). Neue oder wenig bekannte Schlangen aus dem Naturhistorischen Staatsmuseum in Wien. II. Teil. Sitzungsb. Akad. Wiss., Wien, Abt. L, 134: 45 - 66.

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