Caaeteboia amarali (WETTSTEIN, 1930)
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Caaeteboia amarali
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| Higher Taxa | Colubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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| Common Names | E: Amaral's Ground Snake Portuguese: Cobrinha-Marrom-do-Litoral, Cobrinha-Marrom-da-Restinga |
| Synonym | Liophis amarali WETTSTEIN 1930: 93 Liophis amarali — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 176 Liophis amarali incertae sedis — DIXON 1980: 4 Liophis amarali — MARQUES et al. 2009 Caaeteboia amarali — ZAHER et al. 2009 Caaeteboia amarali — WALLACH et al. 2014: 131 Caaeteboia amarali — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019 |
| Distribution | Brazil (Bahia, Minas Gerais, Parana, Santa Catarina, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro) Type locality: Bello Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: NMW 23107 |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis (genus): Small (much less than 1 m), slender snakes with slender transverse (maxillary) processes of pre‐maxillae bearing a small additional process oriented posteriorly from each transverse process (these are in addition to the vomerine processes); hemipenis typically xenodontine, i.e., bilobed, semicapitate and semicalyculate; sulcus spermaticus divides on the proximal region; branches of the sulcus on the lobes with centrolineal orientation; lobes small, the medial lobe shorter than the lateral one; capitula ornamented with small, ill‐defined papillate calyces, restricted to the sulcate and lateral surfaces of the lobes; hemipenial body ornamented with well‐defined lateral enlarged spines and smaller spines covering the asulcate and sulcate sides of the organ out of the intrasulcar region; body spines decreasing in length toward the base. Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 554 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
| Comment | “incertae sedis” (of unclear status) according to DIXON 1989. Type species: Liophis amarali Wettstein, 1930 is the type species of the genus Caaeteboia ZAHER et al. 2009. Habitat: partly arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). Diet: frogs and lizards Distribution: see map in Montingelli et al. 2020: 220 (Fig.1). See map in Nogueira et al. 2019. |
| Etymology | Named after Dr. Afranio do Amaral (1894-1982), physician, zoologist, herpetologist and Director of the Instituto Butantan (1919-1921 and 1928-1938). Amaral was even on the cover of Time magazine in the January 28, 1929 issue. The genus was named after the Brazilian indigenous Tupi word Caa‐etê‐ (= “true forest”) + Boia (derived from the Tupi Mboi, “snake”), gender feminine. |
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