Cercophis auratus is a rare snake with known disjunct distribution between coastal Atlantic Forest to eastern Amazonia and Guiana Shield. Here we provide a new record of this species from a relictual highland of rainforest inside the xeric Caatinga ecoregion. This new record fill a gap of 1700 kilometers between southern (Barra do Choça – BA) and northern (Augusto Corrêa – PA) in the distribution of C. auratus ...
Brazil is a country with enormous biodiversity, but it suffers greatly from various environmental impacts linked to human activities, among them the trampling of wild fauna on roads and highways. Even in the large urban centers, this impact is still present and the effects, especially near of Conservation Units, are quite severe for the conservation of species at national level. In the city of Fortaleza - CE, w...