Apostolepis adhara FRANÇA, BARBO, SILVA-JÚNIOR, SILVA & ZAHER, 2018

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: São Salvador burrow-snake
Synonym	Apostolepis adhara FRANÇA, BARBO, SILVA-JÚNIOR, SILVA & ZAHER 2018 Apostolepis adhara — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019
Distribution	Brazil (Tocantins, Goiás) Type locality: region surrounding the São Salvador Hydroelectric Power Plant (12°48’18.96’’S, 48°13’ 11.79’’W ca. 120 m above sea level; hereafter asl), municipality of São Salvador do Tocantins, state of Tocantins, Brazil.
Reproduction
Types	Holotype: CEPB 6554, Probably an adult female, collected by N.J. da Silva-Júnior and team. Paratype. Probably adult female, MZUSP 16727, same data as the holotype.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Apostolepis adhara can be distinguished from all congeners by the following exclusive combination of characters: dorsum of body creamish in preservative, with eleven narrow black stripes on dorsolateral region (occupying only the center of the scales), preocular absent, supralabials six and infralabials five; ventrals 238–239, and subcaudals 36–37. Additional details (2979 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment
References	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 Marra Santos, F.J. 2024. Checklist of the herpetofauna in an area of the Cerrado Biome, Central Brazil, under strong mining pressure. Journal of Wildlife and Biodiversity, 9(1), 332-354 - 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
External links	https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/310266234531315 Google images

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