Dipsas sazimai FERNANDES, MARQUES & ARGÔLO, 2010
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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 | |
Types | Holotype: MNRJ 15136, adult male, collected by C. C. Siqueira and W. C. Kiefer on 30 October 2005. |
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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