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Apostolepis intermedia KOSLOWSKY, 1898

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Koslowsky’s Blackhead, Mato Grosso Burrowing Snake
Portuguese: Cobrinha-da-Terra 
SynonymApostolepis intermedia KOSLOWSKY 1898: 30
Apostolepis intermedia — DE LEMA 2002
Apostolepis intermedia — MARTINS & DE LEMA 2015
Apostolepis intermedia — WALLACH et al. 2014: 51
Apostolepis intermedia — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019 
DistributionBrazil (Mato Grosso), Paraguay

Type locality: Mato Grosso, Brazil  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: lost according to Lema (1993) and Ferraro & Williams (2006). 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Apostolepis intermedia can be distinguished from other Apostolepis by the following combination of characters: three infralabials in contact with first pair of anterior chinshields, five stripes on dorsal region of body (paravertebral stripes reduced, at least in adult specimens – see below), six supralabials, four maxillary teeth separated from pair of enlarged fangs by short diastema, snout projected, and 33–37 subcaudals [ALBUQUERQUE & DE LEMA 2012].


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CommentAbundance: very rare: only known from a couple of specimens.

Distribution: see map in Maffei & Campos Nogueira 2021. 
EtymologyNamed after Latin intermedius, intermedia, intermediate. (Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., April 2024) 
References
  • ALBUQUERQUE, NELSON RUFINO DE & THALES DE LEMA 2012. Description of the second known specimen of Apostolepis intermedia (Serpentes, Colubridae, Xenodontinae). Zootaxa 3325: 53–58 - get paper here
  • Cacciali, Pier; Norman J. Scott, Aida Luz Aquino Ortíz, Lee A. Fitzgerald, and Paul Smith 2016. The Reptiles of Paraguay: Literature, Distribution, and an Annotated Taxonomic Checklist. SPECIAL PUBLICATION OF THE MUSEUM OF SOUTHWESTERN BIOLOGY, NUMBER 11: 1–373 - get paper here
  • Entiauspe-Neto, O. M., Koch, C., Guedes, T. B., Paredero, R. C., Tiutenko, A., & Loebmann, D. 2022. Unveiling an enigma from the Cerrado: taxonomic revision of two sympatric species of Apostolepis Cope, 1862 (Dipsadidae: Xenodontinae: Elapomorphini) from central Brazil. European Journal of Taxonomy, 817, 143-182 - get paper here
  • Entiauspe-Neto, Omar Machado; Thales de Lema, Hugo Enrique Cabral Beconi 2014. Apostolepis intermedia Koslowsky, 1898 (Serpentes: Xenodontinae: Elapomorphini): First records for Paraguay. Check List 10 (3): 600-601 - get paper here
  • Ferraro, D.P. & Williams, J.D. 2006. Material tipo de la Colección de Herpetología del Museo de La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Cuadernos de Herpetologia 19: 19–36
  • FRANÇA, DANIELLA. P. F.; FAUSTO E. BARBO, NELSON J. SILVA-JÚNIOR, HELDER L. R. SILVA, HUSSAM ZAHER 2018. A new species of Apostolepis (Serpentes, Dipsadidae, Elapomorphini) from the Cerrado of Central Brazil. Zootaxa 4521 (4): 438-552 - 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
  • Koslowsky,J. 1898. Ofidios de Matto-Grosso (Brasil). Rev. Mus. La Plata 8: 25-34 - get paper here
  • Lema, T. de 2004. Nova espécie de Apostolepis COPE do estado de RONDÔNIA, Brasil (Serpentes, Elapomorphinae). Comunicações do Museu Ciência Tecnologia (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, 17 (2): 81-89
  • Lema, T. de 2016. DESCRIPTION OF NEW SPECIES OF Apostolepis (SERPENTES: DIPSADIDAE: XENODONTINAE: ELAPOMORPHINI) FROM SERRA DO RONCADOR, CENTRAL BRAZIL. Caderno de Pesquisa, série Biologia 28 (1): 1-12 - get paper here
  • Lema, T. de & Renner, M.F. 2006. A new species of Apostolepis with striped pattern from Mato Grosso, Brasil (Serpentes, Elapomorphine). Ciência em movimento 8: 13-18
  • Lema, Thales de 2001. Fossorial snake genus Apostolepis from South America (Serpentes: Colubridae: Elapomorphinae). Cuadernos de herpetología 15 (1): 29-43.
  • MAFFEI, FÁBIO & CRISTIANO DE CAMPOS NOGUEIRA. 2021. New records of poorly known snakes of the genus Apostolepis (Dipsadidae, Elapomorphini) in Central Brazil. Herpetology Notes 14: 193-196. - get paper here
  • Martins, L.A. & Lema, T. de 2015. Elapomorphini (Serpentes, Xenodontinae) do Brasil sudoeste. Neotropical Biology and Conservation 10(2): 93-102; doi: 10.4013/nbc.2015.102.05 - get paper here
  • Nogueira, Cristiano C.; Antonio J.S. Argôlo, Vanesa Arzamendia, Josué A. Azevedo, Fausto E. Barbo, Renato S. Bérnils, Bruna E. Bolochio, Marcio Borges-Martins, Marcela Brasil-Godinho, Henrique Braz, Marcus A. Buononato, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, 2019. Atlas of Brazilian snakes: verified point-locality maps to mitigate the Wallacean shortfall in a megadiverse snake fauna. South American J. Herp. 14 (Special Issue 1):1-274 - get paper here
  • Nogueira, Cristiano; Fausto Erritto Barbo and Hebert Ferrarezzi 2012. Redescription of Apostolepis albicollaris Lema, 2002, with a Key for the Species Groups of the Genus Apostolepis (Serpentes: Dipsadidae: Elapomorphini). South American J. Herp. 7 (3): 213-225 - get paper here
  • Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp.
 
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