Amphisbaena littoralis ROBERTO, BRITO & ÁVILA, 2014

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Higher Taxa	Amphisbaenidae, Amphisbaenia, Lacertoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	Portuguese: Cobra-de-Duas-Cabeças, Cobra-Cega
Synonym	Amphisbaena littoralis ROBERTO, BRITO & ÁVILA 2014
Distribution	Brazil (Rio Grande do Norte) Type locality: 8.5 km in straight line to the downtown of Guamaré municipality, state of Rio Grande do Norte (05°07’31.5’’S, 36°23’00.8’’W), Guamaré municipality, state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Reproduction
Types	Holotype: URCA-H 3540, an adult female collected by Igor J. Roberto on May 27 of 2011, (Figure 1–3A). Paratypes. Four adult males (URCA-H 3541-3542, 3544, 3552), two adult females (URCA-H 3543, 3551) and six undetermined sex (URCA-H 3545-3550), all collected from June 9th to June 25th, by Lucas B. M. Brito between 05°08' 30.9'' S/ 36°25' 05.0''W, municipality of Guamaré and 05°10'31.3'' S, 36°28'57.8''W, municipality of Macau, state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: The new species is diagnosable by snout-vent length 248.8 ± 10.9 mm SVL in males and 257.3 ± 24 mm SVL in females, six precloacal pores, 252–264 body annuli, 20–22 dorsal and 21–24 ventral segments to the midbody annulus (Table 1). Nasals in broad contact at midline, without fusion of head scales. Three supralabials, third one larger; three infralabials, second the largest. Suture between frontals two times larger than the parietal and nasal sutures. Lateral sulci present, starting on 42th segment, no dorsal or ventral sulci. Tail long with length maximum 70mm and cylindrical, 30–34 tail annuli with autotomy on the 6th tail annuli, rounded tip of the tail. Additional details (315 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment
Etymology	The specific epithet littoralis, a noun in apposition, means in Latin inhabitant of coastal area, referring to the presence of the species in coastal sand dunes.
References	Calixto PO, Morato SAA 2017. Herpetofauna recorded by a fauna rescue program in a Caatinga area of João Câmara, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Check List 13 (5): 647-657 - get paper here 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 Moura, M.R., Costa, H.C., Abegg, A.D., Alaminos, E., Angarita-Sierra, T., Azevedo, W.S., Cabral, H., Carvalho, P., Cechin, S., Citeli, N., Dourado, A.C.M., Duarte, A.F.V., França, F.G.R., Freire, E.M.X., Garcia, P.C.A., Mol, R., Montero, R., Moraes-d 2022. Unwrapping broken tails: Biological and environmental correlates of predation pressure in limbless reptiles. Journal of Animal Ecology. 92(2):324–337 - get paper here ROBERTO, IGOR JOVENTINO; LUCAS B. M. BRITO, & ROBSON W. ÁVILA 2014. A new six-pored Amphisbaena (Squamata: Amphisbaenidae) from the coastal zone of northeast Brazil. Zootaxa 3753 (2): 167–176 - get paper here Sales, Raul Fernandes Dantas; Carolina Maria Cardoso Aires Lisboa, Eliza Maria Xavier Freire 2019. New Morphological Data and Geographic Distribution of the Worm Lizard Amphisbaena littoralis (Squamata: Amphisbaenidae) in Northeastern Brazil. South American J. Herp. 14 (2): 81–87 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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