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Issue: Vol. 4514 No. 4: 9 Nov. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-11-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4514.4.8
Page range: 553–562
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A new four-pored Amphisbaena (Squamata: Amphisbaenidae) from northeastern Brazil

Setor de Zoologia, Museu de História Natural, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Praça Afrânio Jorge, s/n, Prado, 57010–020, Maceió, AL, Brazil Laboratório de Biologia Integrativa, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Av. Lourival Melo Mota, s/n, Tabuleiro do Martins, 57072–970, Maceió, AL, Brazil. Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio), ESEC Murici, Rua Marino Vieira de Araújo 32, Cidade Alta, CEP 57820-000, Murici, AL, Brazil.
Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio), ESEC Murici, Rua Marino Vieira de Araújo 32, Cidade Alta, CEP 57820-000, Murici, AL, Brazil.
Laboratório de Zoologia, Instituto Multidisciplinar em Saúde, Campus Anísio Teixeira, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Rua Rio de Contas, 58, Quadra 17, Lote 58, Candeias, 45055-090, Vitória da Conquista, BA, Brazil.
Museu de Zoologia, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Av. Transnordestina s/n, Novo Horizonte, 44036-900, Feira de Santana, BA, Brazil.
Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Rua do Matão, travessa 14, n321, Cidade Universitária, Universidade de São Paulo, 05508-090, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Industrias Nucleares do Brasil, Unidade de Caetité, Fazenda Cachoeira s/n, Zona Rural, 46400-000, Caetité, BA.
Setor de Zoologia, Museu de História Natural, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Praça Afrânio Jorge, s/n, Prado, 57010–020, Maceió, AL, Brazil Laboratório de Biologia Integrativa, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Av. Lourival Melo Mota, s/n, Tabuleiro do Martins, 57072–970, Maceió, AL, Brazil.
Reptilia Bahia State Espinhaço Mountain Range 16S rRNA Amphisbaena uroxena

Abstract

A new species of Amphisbaena from the Espinhaço Mountain Range in Bahia State is described based on morphological and molecular data. Amphisbaena caetitensis sp nov. is a small four-pored amphisbaenian with 186–194 body annuli, 10–12 tail annuli, 16 dorsal and 19–22 ventral segments on a midbody annulus and a strikingly distinctive tail tip. The most similar species is A. uroxena, but they can be distinguished by some morphological features besides the genetic divergence of 7.65% on the mitochondrial 16S rRNA.

 

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