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Issue: Vol. 3485 No. 1: 17 Sep. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-09-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3485.1.2
Page range: 26–40
Abstract views: 83
PDF downloaded: 26

A new species of Sibon (Squamata: Colubroidea: Dipsadidae) from the Cordillera Central of western Panama, with comments on other species of the genus in the area

Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany Goethe-University, Institute for Ecology, Evolution & Diversity, Max-von-Laue-Straße 13, Biologicum, Building C, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany Goethe-University, Institute for Ecology, Evolution & Diversity, Max-von-Laue-Straße 13, Biologicum, Building C, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Reptilia snail-eater Dipsas Chiriquí Comarca Ngöbe-Buglé Bocas del Toro Veraguas conservation distribution extension morphology

Abstract

We describe Sibon noalamina sp. nov. from the Caribbean versant of the Cordillera Central, in the Comarca Ngöbe-Bugléand the province of Veraguas of western Panama. Due to its coral snake-like, bicolored pattern, the new species superfi-cially resembles Sibon anthracops, Dipsas articulata, D. bicolor, D. temporalis, and D. viguieri. It differs from these spe-cies, and from all its congeners, by having only five supralabials, by the unique shape of the posterior supralabial, and bya slight keeling on some dorsal rows in adults. We discuss its conservation perspectives, and provide new distributional records for S. annulatus and S. longifrenis, as well as an updated key to the Lower Central American species of Sibon.

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