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Issue: Vol. 1849 No. 1: 13 Aug. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-08-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1849.1.4
Page range: 59–66
Abstract views: 52
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of the colubrid snake genus Atractus (Reptilia: Serpentes) from the central Amazon of Brazil

Departamento de Vertebrados, Museu Nacional/UFRJ, Quinta da Boa Vista, 20940-040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Departamento de Vertebrados, Museu Nacional/UFRJ, Quinta da Boa Vista, 20940-040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Reptilia Brazil central Amazonia hemipenis taxonomy new species

Abstract

A new species of Atractus is described from upper Cururu River in the Amazon Basin of Brazil. The new species differs from all currently recognized Atractus by having a dorsal colour pattern reddish brown, with first two dorsal scale rows creamish white, hemipenis slightly bilobed, with alary spines at intrasulcar region, and lateral projections of the lobes depressed in their basal portions. In addition, a discussion concerning putative close relative taxa is provided.

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