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Issue: Vol. 2737 No. 1: 12 Jan. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-01-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2737.1.5
Page range: 61–68
Abstract views: 25
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of Bachia Gray, 1845 (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the Cerrado of Midwestern Brazil

Programa de Pós Graduação em Biologia Animal, Universidade de Brasília, Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro, CEP 70910-900, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brasil
Departamento de Ciências Básicas e Produção Animal, Faculdade de Agronomia,Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Av. Fernando Correia da Costa 2367, CEP 78060-900, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brasil
Departamento de Biologia e Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Av. Fernando Correia da Costa 2367, CEP 78060-900, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brasil
Coleção Zoológica, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso. Av. Fernando Correia da Costa 2367, CEP 78060-900, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brasil
Departamento de Biologia e Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Av. Fernando Correia da Costa 2367, CEP 78060-900, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brasil
Reptilia Bachia new species Mato Grosso State Rondônia State two digits bresslaui group

Abstract

A new species of Bachia is described from two localities in the states of Mato Grosso and Rondônia, in Midwestern Brazil. The new species mostly resembles Bachia bresslaui in pholidosis and biometry, differing from this and from all other taxa from bresslaui group by the presence of two clawed digits in the forefeet.

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