Data/hora: 01/06/2024 17:37:26

Provedor de dados: | 84
País: | Brazil
Título: | A new species of Atractus (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) from Serra do Cipó, Espinhaço Range, Southeastern Brazil, with proposition of a new species group to the genus
Autores: | Passos,Paulo; TeixeirA Junior,Mauro; Recoder,Renato S.; Sena,Marco Aurélio de; Vechio,Francisco Dal; Pinto,Hugo Bonfim de A.; Mendonça,Sônia H.S.T.; Cassimiro,José; Rodrigues,Miguel Trefaut.
Data: | 2013-01-01
Ano: | 2013
Palavras-chave: | Atlantic Forest; Campos Rupestres; Atractus species groups; Hemipenial morphology.
Resumo: | We describe a new species of Atractus from Serra do Cipó, at the southeastern versant of Serra do Espinhaço, an inland mountain range nearly parallel to the Brazilian Atlantic coast. The new species is morphologically similar to A. paraguayensis and A. potschi with which it shares: 15 dorsal scale rows; white occipital region in juvenile specimens; dorsal ground color reddish pink to red (in life) with alternate black transversal spots, blotches or transversal bands; seven upper and lower labial scales; ventrals and subcaudals creamish white; hemipenis slightly bilobed, semicapitate and semicalyculate. The new species differs from both taxa mainly on the basis of exclusive coloration characters (number and shape of transversal bands) and hemipenial morphology (median face of the lobes without ornamentation), besides punctual meristic (number of ventral scales and maxillary teeth) and morphometric (adult snout-vent length) differences. Finally, we provide a discussion regarding the potential affinities of the new species and we redefine some Atractus species groups in order to better accommodate species sharing unique combinations of morphological characters.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0031-10492013000600001
Editor: | Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo
Relação: | 10.1590/S0031-10492013000600001
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia  v.53 n.6 2013
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess