Amphisbaena mongoyo TEXEIRA JUNIOR, DAL VECHIO, RECODER, CASSIMIRO, SENA & RODRIGUES, 2019
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Amphisbaena mongoyo
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| Higher Taxa | Amphisbaenidae, Amphisbaenia, Lacertoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Synonym | Amphisbaena mongoyo TEXEIRA JUNIOR, DAL VECHIO, RECODER, CASSIMIRO, SENA & RODRIGUES 2019 |
| Distribution | Brazil (Bahia) Type locality: Fazenda Esperança, Vitória da Conquista municipality, (14°47′26.94′′S, 40°43′14.94′′W, 917 m a.s.l., WGS84), Bahia state, Brazil |
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| Types | Holotype. MZUSP 106167, collected by M. Teixeira Jr., R.S. Recoder, C. Garcia, M.F. Santos, and N.B. Matos, on 22 October 2011. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: (1) A small species (holotype SVL = 141 mm), (2) four precloacal pores arranged in a continuous series; (3) snout rounded in profile and dorsal view; (4) body annuli 208; (5) caudal annuli 25; (6) autotomy site at the 10th caudal annuli; (7) 14 dorsal and 16 ventral segments per annulus at midbody; (8) three supralabials; (9) three infralabials, second the largest; (10) two rows of postgenials; (11) postmalar row absent; (12) head without major scale fusions; (13) lateral sulcus present; (14) dorsal and ventral sulci absent. |
| Comment | Known only from the holotype. Habitat: the holotype was found buried in sandy soil covered with leaf litter, herbs, and fallen branches at the edge of a deciduous forest, close to an unpaved road (Fig. 16), at the eastern border of Conquista plateau, 917 m a.s.l. (Fig. 9 in Texeira-Junior et al. 2019). |
| Etymology | The specific epithet is a noun in apposition referring to the Brazilian indigenous people Kamacã-Mongoyó, one of the indigenous groups that inhabited the region of Vitória da Conquista municipality (Oliveira, 2012). History indicates that during a battle against the natives one of the first settlers at the region, João Gonçalves da Costa (1720–1819), promised Our Lady of Victories he would build a church if he succeeded in conquering the region from the Mongoyó Indians (Oliveira, 2012), and so he did. Even after being defeated in battle, the natives continued fighting the colonizers sporadically until João Gonçalves da Costa invited the Indians to a feast where they were ambushed and most were killed in what became known in Portuguese as “O Banquete da Morte” (“the Feast of Death”; Wied, 1821; Oliveira, 2012). The surviving Indians penetrated the forests and over time this people and culture, like so many other indigenous groups, disappeared. |
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