A new species of Amphisbaena (Squamata, Amphisbaenidae) from state of Maranhão, Brazil

Authors

  • Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues Universidade de São Paulo; Instituto de Biociências; Departamento de Zoologia
  • Gilda V. Andrade Universidade Federal do Maranhão; Departamento de Biologia
  • Jucivaldo Dias Lima Universidade Federal do Maranhão; Departamento de Biologia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9079.v2i1p21-26

Keywords:

Squamata, Amphisbaenidae, Amphisbaena ibijara, cerrado, Brazil

Abstract

Amphisbaena ibijara sp. nov. is described from Urbano Santos (Fazenda Santo Amaro), state of Maranhão, Brazil. The new species is a small amphisbaenian with four precloacal pores, nasals in broad contact at midline, no major fusions of head scales, 239-250 body annuli, 23-25 caudal annuli and 1416 dorsal and 14-16 ventral segments per annuli at midbody. Other attributes of the new species are: suture between frontals slightly smaller than parietal suture and much longer than nasal suture, three supralabials (the first being the smallest), second infralabial the largest and much larger than postmental, two rows of postgenials, and absence of a postmalar row.

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Published

2003-06-01

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 1 (2003)

Section

Articles

License

All material originally published in Phyllomedusa belongs to Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz - Universidade de São Paulo. All contents are under a license of Creative Commons BY-NC-ND.

How to Cite

Rodrigues, M. T., Andrade, G. V., & Lima, J. D. (2003). A new species of Amphisbaena (Squamata, Amphisbaenidae) from state of Maranhão, Brazil. Phyllomedusa: Journal of Herpetology, 2(1), 21-26. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9079.v2i1p21-26