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Drymoluber brazili (GOMES, 1918)

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Brazilian Woodland Racer
Portuguese: Cobra-Cipó 
SynonymDrymobius brazilii GOMES 1918: 81
Drymobius rubriceps AMARAL 1923: 85
Drymobius rubriceps AMARAL 1926: 100
Drymobius boddaerti — AMARAL 1929 (partim)
Drymoluber brazili — STUART 1932
Drymoluber brazili — CAMPOS NOGUEIRA 2001
Drymoluber brazili — COSTA et al. 2013
Drymoluber brazili — WALLACH et al. 2014: 247
Drymoluber brazili — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019 
DistributionSC Brazil (Minas Gerais, Distrito Federal, Bahia [HR 35: 191], Rondonia, Piaui, Goias, S Ceará), Paraguay (fide Paul Smith, pers. comm., 27 Apr 2014)

Type locality: Estaçâo de Engenheiro Lisbôo, near Uberaba, Estado de Minas Gerais, Brazil  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: IBSP (= IB) 696, adult male (possibly lost in fire in 2010) Paratypes: Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, IBSP 383, adult male, SVL 863 mm, TL 394 mm, collected in February 1913, in the Estação Ferroviária Santa Eudóxia (currently inactive), municipality of São Carlos (-21.77, -47.78), São Paulo, Brazil; IBSP 573, adult female, SVL 854 mm, TL 422 mm, collected in February 1914, in the Estação Ferroviária de Sampaio Vidal (currently inactive), municipality of Ribeirão Bonito (-22.07, -48.18), São Paulo, Brazil; IBSP 574, adult male, SVL 862 mm, TL 268+N mm (broken tail), without locality data; IBSP 741, adult male, SVL 1120 mm, TL 162+N mm (broken tail), collected in December 1914, in the Estação Ferroviária Java (currently inactive), municipality of Boa Esperança do Sul (-21.99, -48.39), São Paulo, Brazil; IBSP 1286, adult female, SVL 898 mm, TL 402 mm, collected in May 1917, in the Estação Ferroviária Pedregulho (currently inactive), municipality of Pedregulho (-20.26, -47.48), São Paulo, Brazil. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Drymoluber brazili can be distinguished from D. apurimacensis and D. dichrous by the following combination of characters: a) 17-17-15 dorsal scale rows with two apical pits; b) 182–200 ventrals in males, 185– 202 in females; c) 109–127 subcaudals in males, 109–126 in females; d) 19–25 maxillary teeth. See Table 5 in COSTA et al. 2013. 
CommentSynonymy: Note that Amaral described Drymobius rubriceps as a new species in two independent papers, published in 1923 and 1926.

Variation: juveniles of this species are banded while the adults are uniformly colored. See Figure 19 in COSTA et al. 2013: 378. 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. Vital Brazil Mineiro da Campanha, founder and former director of the Instituto (Seroterápico) de Butantan, NOT the species’ distribution in Brazil. 
References
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