Tupinambis palustris MANZANI & ABE, 2002

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Higher Taxa	Teiidae, Tupinambinae, Gymnophthalmoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
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)
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”.
References	Gonzalez R. C. et al. 2020. Lista dos Nomes Populares dos Répteis no Brasil – Primeira Versão. Herpetologia Brasileira 9 (2): 121 – 214 - get paper here HARVEY, MICHAEL B.; GABRIEL N. UGUETO & RONALD L. GUTBERLET, Jr. 2012. Review of Teiid Morphology with a Revised Taxonomy and Phylogeny of the Teiidae (Lepidosauria: Squamata). Zootaxa 3459: 1–156 - get paper here Manzani, Paulo Roberto & Abe, Augusto Shinya 2002. A new species of Tupinambis Daudin, 1803 from Southeastern Brazil (Squamata, Teiidae). Arquivos do Museu Nacional Rio de Janeiro 60 (4): 295-302 Péres, Jr., A. K. 2003. Sistemática e Conservação de Lagartos do Gênero Tupinambis (Squamata, Teiidae). Thesis, Universidade de Brasília, 192 pp. Silva, Marcélia B.; Marco A. Ribeiro-Júnior, and Teresa C. S. Ávila-Pires 2018. A New Species of Tupinambis Daudin, 1802 (Squamata: Teiidae) from Central South America. Journal of Herpetology 52 (1): 94-110 - get paper here Zaher, Hussam; Fausto Erritto BarboI; Paola Sanchez Martínez; Cristiano Nogueira; Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues; Ricardo Jannini Sawaya 2011. Répteis do Estado de São Paulo: conhecimento atual e perspectivas. Biota Neotropica, 11 (1): 1–15. - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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