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Apostolepis adhara FRANÇA, BARBO, SILVA-JÚNIOR, SILVA & ZAHER, 2018

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: São Salvador burrow-snake 
SynonymApostolepis adhara FRANÇA, BARBO, SILVA-JÚNIOR, SILVA & ZAHER 2018
Apostolepis adhara — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019 
DistributionBrazil (Tocantins)

Type locality: region surrounding the São Salvador Hydroelectric Power Plant (12°48’18.96’’S, 48°13’ 11.79’’W ca. 120 m above sea level; hereafter asl), municipality of São Salvador do Tocantins, state of Tocantins, Brazil.  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype: CEPB 6554, Probably an adult female, collected by N.J. da Silva-Júnior and team. Paratype. Probably adult female, MZUSP 16727, same data as the holotype. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Apostolepis adhara can be distinguished from all congeners by the following exclusive combination of characters: dorsum of body creamish in preservative, with eleven narrow black stripes on dorsolateral region (occupying only the center of the scales), preocular absent, supralabials six and infralabials five; ventrals 238–239, and subcaudals 36–37.


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EtymologyThe specific epithet “adhara” refers to the name of the star Epsilon Canis Majoris (ε CMa), from the constellation of Canis Major, which means “maidens” or "(the) virgins" in Arabic (Al ʽAdhārā) (Allen 1963). In the Brazilian flag, this star represents the state of Tocantins. Curiously, Adhara is the second brightest star of its constellation, as well as the Cerrado, corresponds to the second largest biome in South America.  
References
  • FRANÇA, DANIELLA. P. F.; FAUSTO E. BARBO, NELSON J. SILVA-JÚNIOR, HELDER L. R. SILVA, HUSSAM ZAHER 2018. A new species of Apostolepis (Serpentes, Dipsadidae, Elapomorphini) from the Cerrado of Central Brazil. Zootaxa 4521 (4): 438-552 - get paper here
  • Nogueira, Cristiano C.; Antonio J.S. Argôlo, Vanesa Arzamendia, Josué A. Azevedo, Fausto E. Barbo, Renato S. Bérnils, Bruna E. Bolochio, Marcio Borges-Martins, Marcela Brasil-Godinho, Henrique Braz, Marcus A. Buononato, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, 2019. Atlas of Brazilian snakes: verified point-locality maps to mitigate the Wallacean shortfall in a megadiverse snake fauna. South American J. Herp. 14 (Special Issue 1):1-274 - get paper here
 
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