Iphisa brunopereira MELLO, RECODER, FOUQUET, RODRIGUES & NUNES, 2023
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Iphisa brunopereira
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| Higher Taxa | Gymnophthalmidae (Gymnophthalminae), Iphisini, Sauria, Gymnophthalmoidea, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Synonym | Iphisa brunopereira MELLO, RECODER, FOUQUET, RODRIGUES & NUNES 2023: 20 |
| Distribution | Brazil (Amazonas) Type locality: São Pedro (3° 02ʹ 06.5′′ S, 68° 52ʹ 58.6′′ W; WGS 84) municipality of Santo Antônio do Içá, state of Amazonas, Brazil |
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| Types | Holotype: MZUSP 107618 (field number MTR 36543). Collected on 23 April 2015 by Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues, Mauro Teixeira Jr, Renato Recoder, Marco Sena, Ivan Prates, Francisco Dal Vechio, Pedro Dias, Sérgio Marques de Souza and José Mario Ghellere. Paratypes: Brazil: Amazonas: Açaí, Içá River (left margin): MTR 36228; São Pedro, Içá River (right margin): MTR 36599, MTR 36597; Mato Grosso: Araputanga: UFMT 6252, UFMT 6555. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: (i) Femoral pores in females always present (16–20, modal value = 18); (ii) always seven supralabials, with fifth supralabial being the largest and the third and fourth supralabials always under the eye; (iii) prefrontals always present; and (iv) hemipenes morphotype 1. (Mello et al. 2023) |
| Comment | Similar species: Duellman 1978: p. 215; according to Duellman (1978), Fitch (1968: p. 37) erroneously identifies a specimen of Iphisa from Ecuador as Calliscincophis agilis; Ribeiro-Júnior et al. 2017: pp. 169–170 (part). |
| Etymology | The species honours Bruno Pereira, a National Foundation of Indigenous Peoples (FUNAI) indigenist brutally murdered on 5 June 2022, together with the British journalist Dom Phillips, owing to his work protecting the indigenous communities of the Javari River Valley in western state of Amazonas, Brazil from the illegal exploitation and occupation of their lands. May he always be remembered as a symbol of the struggle of indigenous peoples for their right to self-determination and the struggle to preserve the Amazon. Name in apposition. |
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