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Issue: Vol. 3043 No. 1: 28 Sep. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-09-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3043.1.3
Page range: 33–34
Abstract views: 51
PDF downloaded: 1

Amphisbaena uroxena Mott, Rodrigues, De Freitas and Silva 2008 (Squamata, Amphisbaenidae) shows sexual dimorphism in precloacal pores

Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Av. Lourival Melo Mota s/n, Maceió, Alagoas 57072-970, Brazil
Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo 05422-970, Brazil
Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade ICMBio, Rua do INCRA, Brasiléia, Acre 69932-000, Brazil
Reptilia Squamata Amphisbaenidae

Abstract

In 2008, Mott, Rodrigues, De Freitas and Silva (Journal of Herpetology 42: 172) described as a new species Amphisbaena uroxena, characterized among other features by the presence of conic tubercles concentrated in a circle on the dorsal surface of the tail, an unique feature among South American amphisbaenids. At that time, based only on the three specimens of the type series, all without precloacal pores, they speculated that the absence of pores could be a sex-based difference. In fact, in other amphisbaenid species, the absence of pores in females has been either reported (A. dubia and A. heathi, Vanzolini 2002; A.hiata, Montero & Céspedez 2002) or noticed (A. anaemariae, observed by TM).

References

  1. Monteiro, R. & Céspedez, J. (2002) New two-pored Amphisbaena (Squamata: Amphisbaenidae) from Argentina. Copeia 2002(3), 792 – 797.

    Mott, T.; Rodrigues, M.T.; De Freitas, M.A.; Silva, T.F.S. (2008) New Species of Amphisbaena with a Nonautotomic and Dorsally Tuberculate Blunt Tail from State of Bahia, Brazil (Squamata, Amphisbaenidae). Journal of Herpetology 42(1), 172 – 175.

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