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A century of waiting: description of a new Epictia Gray, 1845 (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae) based on specimens housed for more than 100 years in the collection of the Natural History Museum Vienna (NMW) | |
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Claudia Koch1  Angele Martins2  Silke Schweiger4  | |
[1] Department of Herpetology;Departamento de Ciências Fisiológicas, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Campus Darcy Ribeiro, Universidade de Brasília;Departamento de Vertebrados;1st Zoological Department | |
关键词: Burrowing snakes; Epictinae; Thread snakes; Fossorial snakes; Slender blind snakes; Systematics; High resolution x-ray tomography; Osteology; Pholidosis; Squamata; | |
DOI : 10.7717/peerj.7411 | |
学科分类:社会科学、人文和艺术(综合) | |
来源: Inra | |
【 摘 要 】
We describe a new species of Epictia based on eight specimens from Nicaragua collected and housed in the collection of the Natural History Museum Vienna for more than a century. The species differs from the congeners by the combination of external morphological characters: midtail scale rows 10; supralabials two, anterior one large and in broad contact with supraocular; infralabials four; subcaudals 14–19; middorsal scale rows 250–267; supraocular scales present; frontal scale distinct; striped dorsal color pattern with more or less triangular dark blotches on each scale; small white blotch in anterior part of dorsal surface of rostral present in five out of six specimens (two further specimens are lacking their heads); terminal spine and adjacent scales white. Eidonomic species separation from other Epictia spp. is also supported by a few qualitative and quantitative differences in vertebrae count and morphology. The new species is putatively assigned to the Epictia phenops species group based on external morphological characters and distribution.
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