Produção Nacional
First records of the rare snake Echinanthera cephalomaculata Di-Bernardo, 1994 in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil (Serpentes: Dipsadidae)
2019; Volume: 12; Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
2071-5773
AutoresMarco Antônio de Freitas, Géssica Gomes Barbosa, Karol Priscila Bernardino, João Domingos Pinheiro Filho, Arthur Diesel Abegg,
Tópico(s)Turtle Biology and Conservation
ResumoThe Echinanthera Cope, 1894 genus comprises six species known as occurring in the southern, southeastern and northeastern Atlantic rainforests of Brazil (Di-Bernardo, 1992; Myers and Cadle, 1994; Costa and Bernils, 2018). The genus comprises small to medium-sized (<1.2 m) aglyph snakes with diets based on ectothermal prey (Moura-Leite et al., 2003; Marques et al., 2004; Pontes and Rocha, 2008; Santos-Jr., 2009; Salles and Silva-Soares, 2011; Gomes, 2012). Some species belonging to this genus are poorly known, with few specimens in zoological collections and few available natural history data (Azevedo et al., 2018). In this context, the Echinanthera cephalomaculata Di-Bernardo, 1994 taxon raises the most concerns. Echinanthera cephalomaculata was described based on only two individuals, collected in the beginning of the 90s of the last century, in the municipality of Quebrangulo, located in the state of Alagoas, northeastern Brazil (Di-Bernardo, 1994). More specifically, its type-locality is the Pedra Talhada Biological Reserve, an Atlantic rainforest remnant in northeastern Brazil, inserted in the Borborema Plateau border, with altitudes ranging from 500 to 1197 meters asl. After over 20 years without any records, two E. cephalomaculata specimens were observed again at the Pedra Talhada Biological Reserve, both moving in the middle of the forest, at altitudes ranging from 560 and 850 meters asl (Roberto et al., 2015). This study reports three E. cephalomaculata records for the State of Pernambuco, expanding the species distribution in about 150 km to the northeast from its type-locality.
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