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Dryophylax almae (FRANCO & FERREIRA, 2003)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
 
Common NamesPortuguese: Jararaca, Jararaca-Falsa, Jararaquinha 
SynonymThamnodynastes almae FRANCO & FERREIRA 2003
Thamnodynastes almae — WALLACH et al. 2014: 716
Thamnodynastes almae — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019
Thamnodynastes almae — TREVINE et al. 2021
Dryophylax almae — TREVINE et al. 2022 
DistributionBrazil (Amazonas, S Ceará, Alagoas, Bahia, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte)

Type locality: Usina Hidroelétrica Luiz Gonzaga, no Rio São Francisco, município de Rodelas, Bahia, Brazil (between 9° 6’ S, 38° 20’ W and 8° 51’ S, 38° 45’ W), elevation 280 m.  
ReproductionViviparous 
TypesHolotype: IBSP (= IB) 52135 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (71 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Silvia Alma Renata Wilma Lemos Romano-Hoge, a herpetologist and former research scientist at the Herpetology Laboratory, Instituto Butantan, Sao Paulo, Brazil. She is the widow of Dr. Alphonse Richard Hoge, who was Director of the Instituto Butantan. 
References
  • Barbosa DBS, Lima MSCS, Guedes TB 2020. First record of Thamnodynastes almae Franco & Ferreira, 2002 (Serpentes, Dipsadidae, Xenodontinae) in the state of Piauí, northeastern Brazil, and updated distribution map. Check List 16 (5): 1323-1328 - get paper here
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Faria, Sandro P. de; Felipe Camurugi, Júlio C. Moura-Leite, Ricardo Marques 2021. Preliminary data on the reproductive biology for Thamnodynastes almae Franco and Ferreira, 2002, (Dipsadidae: Xenodontinae: Tachymenini) in a Caatinga-Atlantic Forest transitional area of Bahia, Brazil. Herpetology Notes 14: 15-20
  • Franco, F.L. & Ferreira, T. G. 2003. Descrição de uma nova espécie de Thamnodynastes Wagler, 1830 (Serpentes, Colubridae) do nordeste brasileiro, com comentários sobre o gênero. Phyllomedusa 1 (2): 57-74 [2002] - get paper here
  • Freire, E. M. X., Kolodiuk, M. F., Gogliath, M., Kokubum, M. N. D. C., Rêgo, B. D. P., Ribeiro, M. M., ... & Sales, R. F. D. 2023. The herpetofauna of priority highland areas for conservation of the Caatinga in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, northeastern Brazil. Biota Neotropica, 23, e20221395 - get paper here
  • Freitas, Marco A. de; Marcos J.M. Dubeux, Márcio F. Chaves, Bruno F. Fiorillo, Gentil A.P. Filho, Washington L.S. Vieira, and Geraldo J.B. de Moura 2023. Herpetofauna in three highland Atlantic Forest remnants in northeastern Brazil. Herpetology Notes 16: 377-390
  • Freitas, Marco Antonio de; Arthur Diesel Abegg, Daniel da Silva Araújo, Hugo Estevam de Almeida Coelho, Weverton dos Santos Azevedo, Márcio Frazão Chaves, Geraldo Jorge Barbosa de Moura 2019. Herpetofauna of five "Brejos de Altitude" of the interior of the state of Pernambuco, Northeastern Brazil. Herpetology Notes 12: 591-602 - get paper here
  • Gonzalez R. C. et al. 2020. Lista dos Nomes Populares dos Répteis no Brasil – Primeira Versão. Herpetologia Brasileira 9 (2): 121 – 214 - get paper here
  • GUEDES, THAÍS B.; CRISTIANO NOGUEIRA & OTAVIO A. V. MARQUES 2014. Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3863 (1): 001–093 - get paper here
  • Hamdan, B. & R. M. Lira-da-Silva 2012. The snakes of Bahia State, northeastern Brazil: species richness, composition and biogeographical notes. Salamandra 48 (1): 31-50 - get paper here
  • Hamdan, B.; D.P. Coelho; A.B. D’Angiolella; E.J.R. Dias; R.M. Lira-da-Silva. 2013. The Reptile Collection of the Museu de Zoologia, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil. Check List 9 (2):257-262 - get paper here
  • Jorge, Jaqueiuto S. and Eliza M. X. Freire. 2011. Geographic Distribution:Thamnodynastes almae (Jararaca false snake). Herpetological Review 42 (3): 396 - get paper here
  • Nóbrega, Romulo Pantoja; Montingelli, Giovanna Gondim; Trevine, Vivian; Franco, Francisco Luis; Vieira, Gustavo H.C.; Costa, Gabriel C.; Mesquita, Daniel Oliveira 2016. Morphological variation within Thamnodynastes pallidus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Serpentes: Dipsadidae: Xenodontinae: Tachymenini). The Herpetological Journal 26 (2): 165-174 - 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
  • Ribeiro, S. C., I. J. Roberto, D. L. Sales, R. W. Ávila & W. O. Almeida 2012. Amphibians and reptiles from the Araripe bioregion, northeastern Brazil. Salamandra 48 (3): 133-146 - get paper here
  • Trevine, V. C., Grazziotin, F. G., Giraudo, A., Sallesbery‐Pinchera, N., Vianna, J. A., & Zaher, H. 2022. The systematics of Tachymenini (Serpentes, Dipsadidae): An updated classification based on molecular and morphological evidence. Zoologica Scripta - get paper here
  • TREVINE, VIVIAN C.; JOSÉ RANCÉS CAICEDO-PORTILLA, MARINUS HOOGMOED, ROBERT A. THOMAS, FRANCISCO L. FRANCO, GIOVANNA G. MONTINGELLI, MARIELA OSORNO-MUÑOZ, HUSSAM ZAHER 2021. A new species of Thamnodynastes Wagler, 1830 from western Amazonia, with notes on morphology for members of the Thamnodynastes pallidus group (Serpentes, Dipsadidae, Tachymenini). Zootaxa 4952 (2): 235–256 - 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.
 
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