Dipsas sazimai FERNANDES, MARQUES & ARGÔLO, 2010
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Dipsas sazimai
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| Higher Taxa | Colubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | Portuguese: Come-Lesma, Dormideira |
| Synonym | Dipsas sazimai FERNANDES, MARQUES & ARGÔLO 2010 Dipsas sazimai — WALLACH et al. 2014: 234 Dipsas sazimai — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019 |
| Distribution | Brazil (atlantic forest in Espiritó Santo, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Alagoas, Sergipe ?, NE São Paulo, Pernambuco) Type locality: Brazil, state of Rio de Janeiro, municipality of Casimiro de Abreu (22° 28’S, 42° 12’W, ca. 80 m elevation). |
| Reproduction | oviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022) |
| Types | Holotype: MNRJ 15136, adult male, collected by C. C. Siqueira and W. C. Kiefer on 30 October 2005. Paratypes: (n=9) MZUESC 8199, young female, Brazil, state of Alagoas, Fazenda Bananeira, municipality of Murici (09º 18’S, 35º 57’W, ca. 550 m), collected by Marco A. Freitas, February–March 2010; MZUFBA 1800, adult male, Brazil, state of Bahia, Parque Estadual das Sete Passagens, municipality of Miguel Calmon (11º 26’S, 40º 36’W, ca. 530 m), no collector data, February 2006; MZUESC 6134, adult male, Brazil, state of Bahia, Sítio de Maria das Neves, municipality of Camacan (15º 23’S, 39º 33’W, ca. 450 m), collected by Maria das Neves, January–June 2007; MZUESC 7848, adult female, Brazil, state of Bahia, Serra Bonita, municipality of Camacan (15º 23’S, 39º 33’W, ca. 700 m), collected by Iuri Dias, 16 November 2009; MZUESC 8466, adult male, Brazil, Bahia State, Serra Bonita, municipality of Camacan (15º 23’S, 39º 33’W, ca. 400 m), collected by Iuri Dias, 05 June 2010; MZUESC 7988, adult male, Brazil, state of Bahia, municipality of Jequié (13º 57’S, 39º 59’W, ca. 650 m), collected by Juliana Rodrigues, 05 January 2010; MNRJ 19275, adult female, Brazil, state of Espírito Santo, Estação Biológica Santa Lúcia, municipality of Santa Teresa (19º 56’S, 40º 36’W, ca. 650 m), collected by A. Giupponi, T. Souza, and M. Milleri, 11–12 May 2005; IBSP 77835, adult female, Brazil, state of Espírito Santo, Fazenda Bandarra, municipality of Mimoso do Sul (21º 04’S, 41º 22’W, ca. 270 m), collected by J. L. Gasparini, 16 December 2007; IBSP 69143, adult male, Brazil, state of São Paulo, Picinguaba, municipality of Ubatuba (23º 23’S, 44º 50’W, ca. 40 m), collected by P. A. Hartmann, 01 March 2004 |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Distinguished from all congeners by the following combination of characters: (1) 15- 15-15 dorsals; (2) temporals not entering orbit; (3) loreal enters orbit; (4) prefrontals generally enter orbit; (5) one pair of infralabials in contact behind symphysial; (6) infralabials contact second pair of chinshields; (7) 187–209 ventral scales in males, 193–202 in females; (8) 107–129 subcaudal scales in males, 107–116 in females; (9) 17–21 maxillary teeth; (10) anterior portion of body with rounded dorsal blotches generally wider than interblotches; (11) median and mostly posterior portion of body with blotches higher than long and narrower than interblotches; (12) posterior body blotches lighter than anterior blotches; (13) posterior blotches with conspicuous white edge in paraventral region; (14) tiny and vertically oriented streaks in the interblotches from the posterior half of body; (15) labial scales not heavily pigmented; (16) head mostly immaculate; (17) the first blotch not reaching the rictus [from FERNANDES et al. 2010]. |
| Comment | Distribution: see map in FERNANDES et al. 2010. See map in Nogueira et al. 2019. Habitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). |
| Etymology | The specific epithet honors Ivan Sazima for his relevant contributions to herpetology in Brazil and his immense contributions to the knowledge of the Brazilian vertebrate fauna. |
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