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Apostolepis nigrolineata (PETERS, 1869)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Pará Blackhead
quinquelineatus: Guyana Burrowing Snake
Portuguese: Cobra-Cega, Falsa-Coral 
SynonymElapomorphus nigrolineatus PETERS 1869: 439
Elapomorphus nigrolineatus — STRAUCH 1884: 585
Apostolepis quinquelineata BOULENGER 1896: 235
Apostolepis pymi BOULENGER 1903: 353
Apostolepis rondoni AMARAL 1925: 25
Apostolepis coronata AMARAL (part.) 1929
Apostolepis coronata — AMARAL (part.) 1929
Apostolepis quinquelineata — HOGE (part.) 1958
Apostolepis quinquelineata — PETERS et al. 1970: 23
Apostolepis flavotorquata — LEMA (part.) 1978
Apostolepis nigrolineata — DE LEMA 2002
Apostolepis quinquelineata — DE LEMA 2002
Apostolepis nigrolineata — FROTA et al. 2005
Apostolepis quinquelineata — DE LEMA & RENNER 2004
Apostolepis quinquelineata — CURCIO et al. 2011
Apostolepis quinquelineata — SILVA et al. 2011
Apostolepis rondoni — GRAZZIOTIN et al. 2012
Apostolepis nigrolineata — WALLACH et al. 2014: 52
Apostolepis nigrolineata — MARTINS & DE LEMA 2015
Apostolepis quinquelineata — COSTA & BÉRNILS 2015
Apostolepis quinquelineata — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019 
DistributionBrazil (Amazonas, Maranhão, Ceará)

nigrolineata: Pará

Type locality: Brazil.

quinquelineata: Brasil (Amazonas, Pará, Rorâima and Rondônia, Ceara), Bolivia ?, French Guiana [Vidal et al. 1998]; Type locality: Demerara (Georgetown), Guyana.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1946.1.9.59 (and possibly additional specimens) 
Diagnosis 
CommentSynonymy: Apostolepis pymi has been removed from synonymy with A. coronata by DE LEMA & RENNER 1998. Elapomorphus nigrolineatus PETERS 1869 is listed as a synonym of Apostolepis flavotorquata by BAUER et al. 1995 although DE LEMA states that “Apostolepis pymi is [...] Apostolepis nigrolineata” (pers. comm.). See also DE LEMA 1997. LEMA & ALBUQUERQUE (2010) synonymized quinquelineatus with nigrolineatus. However, other authors such as CURCIO et al. 2011 or BERNARDE et al. 2012 still treat it as valid species.

Populations of Apostolepis nigrolineata have been described as new species, A. mariae and A. thalesdelemai BORGES-NOJOSA et al. 2016.

NCBI taxonID: 1260219 [rondoni] 
EtymologyNamed after Latin niger, nigra, nigrum = black or dark, and linea = stripe or line, referring to the dark lines on the dorsum of the species. 
References
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