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Mussurana montana (FRANCO, MARQUES & PUORTO, 1997)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesPortuguese: Coral (juvenil), Coral-Falsa (juvenil), Muçurana-das-Montanhas 
SynonymClelia montana FRANCO, MARQUES & PUORTO 1997
Clelia montana — MARQUES et al. 2009
Mussurana montana — ZAHER et al. 2009
Mussurana montana — WALLACH et al. 2014: 462
Mussurana montana — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019 
DistributionBrazil (NW Sao Paulo, S Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro)

Type locality: city of Guaratingueta (22°49' S; 45°93' W), Sodre mill, state of Sao Paulo, Brazil.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: IBSP (= IB) 22505, adult male; paratypes: IB 
DiagnosisDiagnosis. Clelia montana can be distingued from C. equatoriana, C. errabunda, and C. scytalina because the new species has invariably 19 rows of dorsal scales in mid-body while the other species have 17. Celia montana is distinguishable from C. clelia (sensu Bailey, 1970) because the latter has 7 supralabials, rarely 8 (Bailey, 1970; Cei, 1986; Cunha and Nascimento, 1978; Scrocchi and Viñas, 1990), while the new species has 8 supralabials. Neonates of C. montana have a white collar, a dark vertebral stripe, and an immaculate venter, whereas neonates of C. clelia (sensu Bailey, 1970) lack a vertebral stripe. Clelia montana is distinguishable from Clelia rustica by having 8 rather than 7 supralabials, absence of reticulated dorsal pattern, presence of light collar, and red eyes in the new species (Fig. 2). Celia montana can be distinguished from C. bicolor by the greater number of ventrals and lesser number of subcaudals (Table 1). The latter also has the supralabials with a well defined light region (Fig. 1), while in the new species, the dorsal color part of the head extends onto these shields (Fig. 1). (Franco et al. 1997)


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CommentRelated to C. rustica, being distinguished from the latter by the numbers of supra- and infralabials and the generalized color pattern. 
EtymologyNamed after Latin “montanus”, meaning “pertaining to mountains. 
References
  • Costa, Henrique C.; Patrícia Silva Santos, Wanderlei Pereira Laia, Paulo C. A. Garcia, Renato Silveira Bérnils 2015. Mussurana montana (Franco, Marques & Puorto, 1997) (Serpentes: Dipsadidae): noteworthy records and an updated distribution map. Check List 11 (3): 1657 - get paper here
  • Franco, F.L., Marques,O.A.V. & Puorto,G. 1997. Two new species of colubrid snakes of the genus Clelia from Brazil. Journal of Herpetology 31 (4): 483-490 - 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
  • MARQUES, O. A. V. et al. 2009. Repteis. In: Bressan et al., FAUNA AMEAÇADA DE EXTINÇÃO NO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO: VERTEBRADOS. São Paulo: Fundação Parque Zoológico de São Paulo: Secretaria do Meio Ambiente, pp. 285-327 - get paper here
  • Menezes FA, Abegg AD, Silva BR, Franco FL, Feio RN 2018. Composition and natural history of the snakes from the Parque Estadual da Serra do Papagaio, southern Minas Gerais, Serra da Mantiqueira, Brazil. ZooKeys 797: 117-160 - get paper here
  • Morato, S.A.A.; Franco, F.L. & Sanches, E.J. 2003. Uma nova espécie de Clelia (Serpentes, Colubridae) do sul do Brasil. Phyllomedusa 2 (2): 93-100 - 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
  • Oliveira, Jane C.F.; Rodrigo Castellari Gonzalez; Paulo Passos; Davor Vrcibradic & Carlos Frederico Duarte Rocha 2020. Non-Avian Reptiles of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: status of knowledge and commented list. Pap. Avulsos Zool. 60: e20206024 - 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.
  • Zaher, Hussam; Fausto Erritto BarboI; Paola Sanchez Martínez; Cristiano Nogueira; Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues; Ricardo Jannini Sawaya 2011. Répteis do Estado de São Paulo: conhecimento atual e perspectivas. Biota Neotropica, 11 (1): 1–15. - get paper here
 
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