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Atractus hoogmoedi PRUDENTE & PASSOS, 2010

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymAtractus hoogmoedi PRUDENTE & PASSOS 2010
Atractus zidoki — CUNHA & NASCIMNO 1984:220 (part)
Atractus hoogmoedi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 73
Atractus hoogmoedi — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019 
DistributionBrazil (Pará)

Type locality: Brazil, state of Pará, municipality of Capitão Poço, 04°45’S, 47°04’W, ca. 48 m elev., at locality of Santa Luzia.  
Reproductionoviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022) 
TypesHolotype: MPEG 13268, immature male; paratypes MPEG 13265–66 (adult female + immature male) 
DiagnosisDiagnosis. Atractus hoogmoedi is distinguished from all species of Atractus by having an undivided sulcus spermaticus. Among congeners, Atractus hoogmoedi shares only with A. guerreroi, A. steyermarki, and A. zidoki a unlobed hemipenis. Atractus hoogmoedi differs from the first two by having apical pits and supra-anal tubercles in the male specimens (vs. absence of apical pits and supra-anal tubercles). The new species differs from A. zidoki by having 170–171 ventral scales in males and 180 in the single female and an undivided sulcus spermaticus (vs. 173–187 in males and 196–200 in females and bifurcated sulcus spermaticus). Along with A. zidoki, the new species shares apical pits and supra-anal tubercles exclusively with A. alphonsehogei, A. caxiuana, A. collaris, A. gaigeae, A. limitaneus, and possibly A. surucucu (Prudente and Passos, 2008). Atractus hoogmoedi differs from these species by having a single hemipenis and short loreal scale (vs. bilobed hemipenis and moderate to long loreal scale). Based on easily observed characters, Atractus hoogmoedi can be distinguished from A. alphonsehogei, A. collaris, A. gaigeae, and A. limitaneus by having the loreal scale in contact with second and third supralabials and five maxillary teeth (vs. first supralabial contacting loreal scale and six or seven maxillary teeth); from A. caxiuana by postnasal preventing internasal–loreal contact (vs. internasal contacting loreal); and from A. surucucu by a creamish white tail (vs. uniformly black tail). (Prudente & Passos 2010)


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CommentAtractus hoogmoedi, previously reported as a disjunct population of A. zidoki south of the Amazon River, differs from all congeners in having an undivided sulcus spermaticus.

There seem to be no color photos of live specimens. 
EtymologyThe specific epithet is a noun in the genitive case, honoring Dutch herpetologist Marinus Steven Hoogmoed. Marinus was curator of reptiles and amphibians at the National Museum of Natural History (Leiden, The Netherlands) for 38 years (1966–2004) before retiring as research associate at the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi in Belém, Brazil, where he is still very active. 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - 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
  • PASSOS, PAULO; ANA L. C. PRUDENTE, LUCIANA O. RAMOS, JOSÉ RANCES CAICEDO-PORTILLA, JOHN D. LYNCH 2018. Species delimitations in the Atractus collaris complex (Serpentes: Dipsadidae). Zootaxa 4392 (3): 491–520 - get paper here
  • PASSOS, PAULO; LUCIANA O. RAMOS, PEDRO H. PINNA, ANA L.C. PRUDENTE 2013. Morphological variation and affinities of the poorly known snake Atractus caxiuana (Serpentes: Dipsadidae). Zootaxa 3745 (1): 035–048 - get paper here
  • Prudente, Ana L. C.; Paulo Passos 2010. New Cryptic Species of Atractus (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) from Brazilian Amazonia. Copeia 2010 (3): 397-404 - 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.
  • Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
 
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