Published as part of Nogueira, Cristiano C., Argôlo, Antonio J. S., Arzamendia, Vanesa, Azevedo, Josué A., Barbo, Fausto E., Bérnils, Renato S., Bolochio, Bruna E., Borges-Martins, Marcio, Brasil-Godinho, Marcela, Braz, Henrique, Buononato, Marcus A., Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F., Colli, Guarino R., Costa, Henrique C., Franco, Francisco L., Giraudo, Alejandro, Gonzalez, Rodrigo C., Guedes, Thaís, Hoogmoed, Marinus S., Marques, Otavio A. V., Montingelli, Giovanna G., Passos, Paulo, Prudente, Ana L. C., Rivas, Gilson A., Sanchez, Paola M., Serrano, Filipe C., Silva Jr., Nelson J., Strüssmann, Christine, Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S., Zaher, Hussam, Sawaya, Ricardo J. & Martins, Marcio, 2019, Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna, pp. 1-274 in South American Journal of Herpetology 14 (s 1) on page 30, DOI: 10.2994/SAJH-D-19-00120.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10061686

Apostolepis mariae Borges-Nojosa et al., 2017 Type locality. Sítio Olho d’Água dos Tangarás, MaciÇo de Baturité, Pacotí, state of Ceará, Brazil. Distribution. Endemic to Brazil (Plt. 246A), known only from a restricted upland area in the northern portion of the Caatinga (Plt. 246A) at intermediate to high elevations (Plt. 246B). Observed in the field in upland forest (Borges-Nojosa et al., 2017).