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| Provedor de dados: |
Anais da ABC (AABC)
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| País: |
Brazil
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| Título: |
A new Amphisbaena (Squamata: Amphisbaenidae) from southern Espinhaço Range, southeastern Brazil
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| Autores: |
Costa,Henrique C.
Resende,Flávia C.
Teixeira Jr.,Mauro
Vechio,Francisco Dal
Clemente,Cinara A.
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| Data: |
2015-06-01
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| Ano: |
2015
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| Palavras-chave: |
Minas Gerais
Taxonomy
Amphisbaenia
Fossorial reptile
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| Resumo: |
A new species of Amphisbaena is described from a semi-deciduous forest in Conceição do Mato Dentro, southern Espinhaço Range, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The following combined characters can diagnose the new species from all congeners: head round-shaped; two or three precloacal pores sequentially arranged; 190-199 body annuli; 2-3 lateral annuli; 23-25 caudal annuli; autotomy sites on caudal annuli 7-9; 12-14 dorsal segments on midbody annulus; 14-16 ventral segments on midbody annulus; three supralabials; three infralabials; postmalar row present or absent; dorsum light brown, with cream intersegmental sutures; venter cream. To date, the new species is known only from the Espinhaço Range, highlighting the importance of conservation actions for these mountains.
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| Tipo: |
Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652015000200891
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| Editor: |
Academia Brasileira de Ciências
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| Relação: |
10.1590/0001-3765201520140088
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| Formato: |
text/html
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| Fonte: |
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências v.87 n.2 2015
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| Direitos: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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