Dendrophidion atlantica FREIRE, CARAMASCHI & GONÇALVES, 2010
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Dendrophidion atlantica
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| Higher Taxa | Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Atlantic Forest Racer |
| Synonym | Dendrophidion atlantica FREIRE, CARAMASCHI & GONÇALVES 2010 Dendrophidion atlantica — WALLACH et al. 2014: 224 Dendrophidion atlantica — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019 |
| Distribution | NE Brazil (Alagoas, Pernambuco) Type locality: Mata do Engenho Coimbra (08°59’S, 35°53’W; 526 m elevation |
| Reproduction | oviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022) |
| Types | Holotype: MNRJ 17018, adult male, collected by Ubiratan Gonçalves on 05 December 2006. Paratypes: (n=11) BRAZIL: ALAGOAS: Mata do Catolé (09°40’S, 35°43’W; 122 m altitude), Municipality of Maceió: CHBEZ 853, female, collected by E. M. X. Freire on 29 September 2002; CHBEZ 697, female, collected by E. M. X. Freire on 24 May 2003; CHBEZ 2201, female, MUFAL 6064, male, collected by E. M. X. Freire on 05 May 1995; MUFAL 6065, male, collected by E. M. X. Freire on 24 de October 1996; MNRJ 17020, male, collected by E. M. X. Freire on 02 November 2001. Mata da Salva (09°32’S, 35°49’W; 85 m altitude), Municipality of Rio Largo, MUFAL 327, female, collected by E. M. X. Freire on 13 September 1992; CHBEZ 2202, male, collected by E. M. X. Freire on 01 November 1993. Mata do Rio Messias, Municipality of Messias (09°26’S, 35°47’W; 81 m altitude), MNRJ 17021, male, collected by J. Luiz on 01 May 1993. Mata da Bananeira (09°14’S, 35°48’W; 500 m altitude), Municipality of Murici, MNRJ 17019, female, collected by E. M. X. Freire on 04 November 1994; MUFAL 2245, male, collected by E. M. X. Freire on 22 November 1995 |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Dendrophidion atlantica sp. nov. is characterized by having 154–163 ventral scales, 140–160 subcaudal scales, tail length 62.2–74.8% of snout–vent length, collar absent, head uniformly brown and dorsal ground color brown, paler on anterior third, with cream transversal lines (one half a scale long), bordered anteriorly and posteriorly by dark brown lines (one half a scale long), distributed from the neck to the tail; hemipenis single, subcylindrical, unicapitate, and unicalyculate; calyces large, well defined, papillate; a series of 12 large spines just below the capitulum, on the asulcate and lateral sides; a series of four spines, two large laterals and two small between them, in the basal region of the asulcate side of the organ body; two large spines on the lateral distal areas of the sulcate side of the hemipenial body; sulcus spermaticus centrolineal, bifurcating at the tip of the capitulum. |
| Comment | Distribution: see map in Filho et al. 2023: Fig. 11.5. |
| Etymology | The specific name, used as a noun in apposition, is an allusion to the disjunct occurrence of this new species in the Atlantic Rain Forest. |
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