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A new four-pored Amphisbaena (Squamata: Amphisbaenidae) from northeastern Brazil

2018; Q15088586; Volume: 4514; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.11646/zootaxa.4514.4.8

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João Paulo Felix Augusto de Almeida, Marco Antônio de Freitas, Márcio Borba da Silva, Maria Celeste Costa Valverde, Miguel Tréfaut Rodrigues, ADRIANO MOREIRA PIRES, Tamí Mott,

Vector-borne infectious diseases

A new species of Amphisbaena from the Espinhaço Mountain Range in Bahia State is described based on morphological and molecular data. Amphisbaena caetitensis sp nov. is a small four-pored amphisbaenian with 186–194 body annuli, 10–12 tail annuli, 16 dorsal and 19–22 ventral segments on a midbody annulus and a strikingly distinctive tail tip. The most similar species is A. uroxena, but they can be distinguished by some morphological features besides the genetic divergence of 7.65% on the mitochondrial 16S rRNA.