Amerotyphlops montanum GRABOSKI, ARREDONDO, GRAZZIOTIN, GUERRA-FUENTES, SILVA, PRUDENTE, PINTO, RODRIGUES, BONATTO & ZAHER, 2022
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Amerotyphlops montanum
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| Higher Taxa | Typhlopidae (Typhlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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| Synonym | Amerotyphlops montanum GRABOSKI, ARREDONDO, GRAZZIOTIN, GUERRA-FUENTES, SILVA, PRUDENTE, PINTO, RODRIGUES, BONATTO & ZAHER 2022: 13 |
| Distribution | Brazil (Bahia: Parque Nacional Serra das Lontras, Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural Serra do Teimoso) Type locality: Parque Nacional Serra das Lontras (15° 11′ 46.32′′ S, 39° 20′ 54.24′′ W; c. 234 m a.s.l.), municipality of Arataca, state of Bahia, Brazil. |
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| Types | Holotype: MZUSP 20065, adult female (field number MTR 16379), collected by Augustín Camacho, José Cassimiro, Mauro Teixeira Jr., Miguel T. Rodrigues, Renata C. Amaro and Renato Recoder 6 March 2009 (Fig. 11; Supporting Information, Fig. S4). |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: “This species is distinguished from all other South American congeneric species by a unique combination of the following of characters: (1) nasal suture incomplete; (2) rostral scale oval; (3) supralabial scales four; (4) infralabial scales three; (5) rows scales around the body 20/20/18; (6) mid-dorsal scales 220; (7) ventral scales 217; (8) rows of dorsal scales dark brown 11; (9) rows of ventral scales yellowish cream and immaculate 7–9; (10) caudal spine dark brown; (11) subcaudal scales 11; (12) TTL 216 mm; (13) TL 5.32 mm; (14) contact between the nasal process of premaxilla and vertical laminae of the nasals restricted to the anterodorsal portion, with the central and posteroventral portions not in contact, leaving a large canal between the olfactory chambers; (15) small-sized palatine fossa on the lateral side of the maxilla; (16) maxilla with a straight medial border; (17) ventral pterygoid process of palatine straight; (18) ratio between length of ventral pterygoid process of palatine and skull length 0.06; (19) angle between mandibular condyle articulation and the retroarticular process of the compound bone close to 90°; and (20) dorsal surface of dentary bone without evident foramina. Amerotyphlops montanum differs from A. costaricensis, A. lehneri, A. microstomus, A. stadelmani, A. tasymicris, A. tenuis, A. trinitatus and A. tycherus by having an incomplete nasal suture (vs. complete nasal suture); from A. arenensis, A. caetanoi, A. amoipira, A. minuisquamus, A. paucisquamus and A. yonenagae by having 20/20/18 rows scales around the body (vs. 18/16/14, 18/18/14, 20/18/14 or 20/18/15 in A. minuisquamus and 18/18/18 in A. arenensis, A. caetanoi, A. amoipira, A. paucisquamus and A. yonenagae); from A. reticulatus by having highly pigmented cephalic scales with a dark brown dorsum and dorsum tail brown (vs. yellow and few pigmented cephalic scales, dorsum brown or black and dorsum tail black with cream or yellow spot); and from A. brongermianus by having a larger interorbital relative width (INORB/HWE) 0.725 mm (vs. smaller interorbital relative width, between 0.526–0.705 mm). Table 1 shows additional morphometric characters and scale patterns found in A. montanum and in a morphologically similar species distributed in south-eastern Brazil (A. brongermianus).” (Graboski et al. 2022) |
| Comment | Distribution: for a map see Graboski et al. 2022: 16 (Fig. 10). |
| Etymology | After the Latin adjective ‘montanus’. It is a reference to the type locality, a high elevational forest, located on the slopes of a hill summit in the Brazilian state of Bahia. |
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