Tupinambis palustris MANZANI & ABE, 2002
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Tupinambis palustris
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| Higher Taxa | Teiidae, Tupinambinae, Gymnophthalmoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Common Names | Portuguese: Teiú-Palustre |
| Synonym | Tupinambis palustris MANZANI & ABE 2002: 296 Tupinambis palustris — HARVEY et al. 2012 Tupinambis palustris — SILVA et al. 2018 |
| Distribution | C Brazil (Sao Paulo) Type locality: Usina Hidreletrica Tres Irmaos, at lower Tiete river, between the municipalities of Aracatuba and Pereira Barreto (20° 35'-20°45' S and 50°15'-51°20' W), State of Sao Paulo, Brazil. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: ZUEC 2078, adult male; Paratypes: All collected at the same locality and year of the holotype, juvenile female (ZUEC 2081), 211mm SVL,431mm TL;juvenile female (ZUEC2080), 241mm SVL, 481mm TL; adult female (ZUEC 2501), 280mm SVL, 390mm TL (incomplete); adult male (ZUEC 2500), 310mm SVL, 450mm TL (incomplete); adult male (MNRJ 9008), 305mm SVL, 515mm TL (incomplete); adult female (MNRJ 9009), 287mm SVL, 492mm TL (incomplete). |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Tupinambis characterized by: a moderately blunt head, body approximately cylindrical; one large loreal scale; head and dorsu m dark brown in preservative, with a spattering of small gray blotches on dorsum; flanks lacking longitudinal bands or stripes; black spots scattered on gular surface; neck cream ventrally; belly cream with scattered black spots; ventral surface of tail cream, spotless from the first transversal row of scales to 16th; everted hemipenis shallowly forked, with well defined groove and distally two large petala on each crown horn. (Manzani & Abe 2002) Additional details (6998 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
| Comment | Tupinambis palustris sp. nov. is mainly characterized by its ground color on dorsum, black intervened by small gray spots; black spots scattered on the gular surface and neck; large black spots scattered on belly; everted hemipenis shallowly forked with a well defined groove and two large petalas on each crown horn distally, larger than in T. teguixin, the closely related. In color, the new species also differs from other Tupinambis species of T. merianae group and T. teguixin by the absence of transverse banded pattern on back. It differs from T. quadrilineatus by the absence of whitish-yellow longitudinal narrow stripes on flanks, and from T. longilineus by the absence of a wide black band on flanks (from the abstract of MANZANI & ABE 2002). Ayrton Klier Péres (2003) concluded in a thesis that T. palustris is a junior synonym of T. teguixin. Distribution: see map in Silva et al. 2018. |
| Etymology | Named after Latin “palustris”, meaning “inhabiting swamps”. |
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