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Tantilla boipiranga SAWAYA & SAZIMA, 2003

IUCN Red List - Tantilla boipiranga - Vulnerable, VU

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymTantilla boipiranga SAWAYA & SAZIMA 2003
Tantilla boipiranga — WALLACH et al. 2014: 699
Tantilla boipiranga — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019 
DistributionSE Brazil (Minas Gerais [HR 34: 390])

Type locality: “montane fields of the Serra do Cipó, Santana do Riacho, Minas Gerais, SE Brazil (19° 17’ S, 43° 36’ W), elevation 1200 m.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ZUEC 1840, adult male 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: presence of seven supralabial scales; two postoculars scales; 143–160 ventral scales and 56–70 subcaudals in males; 153–172 ventrals and 51–59 subcaudals in females; presence of a black cephalic cap that can extend weakly to the temporal region, followed by a pale nuchal band medially divided, a black collar at the neck and a posteriorly discreet pale band, more evident laterally; presence of subocular black blotch; uniform dorsal reddish orange colour, sometimes presenting a discreet black vertebral longitudinal line; and presence of hemipenis elongated ornamented with large spines in the asulcate surface of distal region of hemipenial body (Santos-Azevedo et al. 2021).


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CommentAbundance: rare; Tantilla boipiranga was described based on four specimens from the highlands of Minas Gerais.

Synonymy: although T. boipiranga represents a monophyletic clade oit nests genetically within T. melanocephala 
EtymologyNamed after the words “boi” (= snake) and “piranga” (= red) in the Tupi native Brazilian language. The reddish pattern is shared with T. rubra. T. boipiranga may mimic the similarly colored colubrids of the genus Phalotris. 
References
  • Azevedo, W. S. dos; Franco, F. L., Menezes, L., Kunz, T. S. & Grazziotin, F. G. 2024. Integrated evidence sheds light on the taxonomy of the widespread Tantilla melanocephala species complex (Serpentes: Colubridae) and indicates the existence of a new species from southern South America. Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 1-29 - 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
  • Santos-Azevedo, W. dos; Franco, F. L., Thomassen, H., de Castro, T. M., Abegg, A. D., Leite, F. S. F., ... & Grazziotin, F. G. 2021. Reassessment of Tantilla boipiranga (Serpentes: Colubrinae) and a preliminary approach to the phylogenetic affinities within Tantilla. Salamandra 57 (3): 400-412 - get paper here
  • Sawaya, R.J. & Sazima, I. 2003. A new species of Tantilla (Serpentes: Colubridae) from southeastern Brazil. Herpetologica 59 (1): 119-126 - get paper here
  • SILVEIRA, A.L.; G.A. COTTA & M.R.S. PIRES 2009. Distribuição geográfica e variação fenotípica de Tantilla boipiranga Sawaya & Sazima, 2003 (Serpentes, Colubridae). Geographic distribution and phenotypic variation of Tantilla boipiranga Sawaya & Sazima, 2003 (Serpentes, Colubridae). Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro 67: 93 - 101 - 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.
  • Wilson, Larry David and Vicente Mata-Silva 2015. A checklist and key to the snakes of the Tantilla clade (Squamata: Colubridae), with comments on distribution and conservation. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (4): 418 - get paper here
 
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