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Issue: Vol. 2165 No. 1: 22 Jul. 2009
Type: Articles
Published: 2009-07-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2165.1.4
Page range: 52–58
Abstract views: 23
PDF downloaded: 1

A new Amphisbaena with chevron-shaped anterior body annuli from state of Pernambuco: Brazil (Squamata: Amphisbaenidae)

Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Av. Fernando Correa da Costa s/n, Coxipó,CEP 78060-900, Cuiabá, MT, Brazil
Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 11.461, CEP 05422-970, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Unidade Acadêmica de Serra Talhada, Fazenda Saco, s/n, Serra Talhada, Pernambuco, Brazil
Reptilia Amphisbaena supernumeraria new species Amphisbaenia Taxonomy Caatingas

Abstract

A new species of Amphisbaena is described from Fazenda Porto Seguro, municipality of Buique, state of Pernambuco, in the Caatingas of northeastern Brazil based on four specimens. The new species is a small and slender amphisbaenian with four precloacal pores, 333–337 body annuli, 22–23 tail annuli with discrete evidence of an autotomic site on the 10–12 tail annuli, and 14 dorsal and 17–18 ventral segments per annuli at midbody. The high number of body annuli, the presence of chevron-shaped anterior body annuli, and the fusion of frontal scales distinguish Amphisbaena supernumeraria sp. nov. from its congeners.

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