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Issue: Vol. 4147 No. 2: 3 Aug. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-08-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4147.2.2
Page range: 124–142
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A new two-pored species of Amphisbaena (Squamata, Amphisbaenidae) from the Brazilian Cerrado, with a key to the two-pored species of Amphisbaena 

Laboratório de Ecologia e Comportamento Animal, Instituto de Ciências da Educação—ICED, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Rua Vera Paz, s/n, Salé, 68035-110, Santarém, Pará, Brazil Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociedade, Ambiente e Qualidade de vida—PPGSAQ, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Centro de Formação Interdisciplinar—CFI, Avenida Mendonça Furtado, 2946, Fátima, 68040-470, Santarém, Pará, Brazil Programa de Pós-Graduação em Recursos Naturais da Amazônia—PGRNA, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Avenida Mendonça Furtado, 2440, Aldeia, 68040-255, Santarém, Pará, Brazil
Laboratório de Herpetologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi/CZO, Av. Perimetral, 1901/1907, Caixa Postal 399, CEP 66077-530, Terra Firme, Belém, PA, Brazil. Laboratório de Modelagem Ecológica, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi/CZO, Av. Perimetral, 1901/1907, Caixa Postal 399, CEP 66077-530, Terra Firme, Belém, PA, Brazil
Mestrado em Ciências Ambientais e Saúde. Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, Rua 232, 128, Área V, Setor Universitário, CEP 74605-140, Goiânia, GO, Brazil.
Mestrado em Ciências Ambientais e Saúde. Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, Rua 232, 128, Área V, Setor Universitário, CEP 74605-140, Goiânia, GO, Brazil. Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas Biológicas. Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, Av, Universitária, 1.440, Setor Universitário, CEP 74605-010—Goiânia, GO, Brazil.
Mestrado em Ciências Ambientais e Saúde. Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, Rua 232, 128, Área V, Setor Universitário, CEP 74605-140, Goiânia, GO, Brazil. Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas Biológicas. Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, Av, Universitária, 1.440, Setor Universitário, CEP 74605-010—Goiânia, GO, Brazil.
Reptilia Amphisbaenia morphology dicotomic key taxonomy

Abstract

A new species of Amphisbaena is described from municipalities of Babaçulândia, State of Tocantins, and Estreito, State of Maranhão, northern Brazilian Cerrado. The new species differs from other two-pored species of the genus, by presenting mainly slender body shape; snout rounded in profile and dorsal view; high number of body annuli (328–342); 12–14 dorsal segments and 14–16 ventral in midbody half-annulus; autotomic site between 9–10th caudal annuli; absence of chevron-shaped anterior dorsal half-annuli; 20–23 caudal annuli; postmalar row absent; and precloacals pores arranged in a continuous series of the precloacal half-annuli. Additionally, we present a key for two-pored species of Amphisbaena.

 

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