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Table 2. Morphological comparisons among mainland Tropidophis Bibron, 1840 in A time relic: a new species of dwarf boa, Tropidophis Bibron, 1840 (Serpentes: Amerophidia), from the Upper Amazon Basin
Authors/Creators
- 1. Biogeography and Spatial Ecology Research Group, Life Sciences Faculty, Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam, Tena, Napo, Ecuador. & Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, INABIO, Quito, Ecuador.
- 2. Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, INABIO, Quito, Ecuador. & Sumak Kawsay In Situ, Vía Río Anzu km 14, Mera, Pastaza, Ecuador. & Waska Amazonía, Vía Río Anzu ciudadela ecológico Waska, Mera, Pastaza, Ecuador.
- 3. Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change / ZFMK, Museum Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53113, Bonn, Germany.
- 4. Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, INABIO, Quito, Ecuador.
- 5. Laboratório de Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Butantan, 05503 - 90, Av. Vital Brazil, 1500, Butantã, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. & Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia, Avenida Bento Gonçalves, 91501 - 970, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
Description
Table 2. Morphological comparisons among mainland Tropidophis Bibron, 1840 of South America. Diagnostic characters of Tropidophis cacuangoae sp. nov. are highlighted in bold. Supporting data from Curcio et al. 2012 are indicated with an asterisk (*). Species with confirmed records from the Andes mountain range are indicated with a dagger (†).
| Tro. cacuangoae sp. nov. † | Tro. battersbyi | Tro. taczanowksyi * † | Tro. grapiuna * | Tro. paucisquamis * | Tro. preciosus * | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dorsals | 23/22/17 (n = 1) or | 21/23/17 (n = 1) | 23/23/21 (n = 7), | 23/23/19 (n = 1) | 16/21/15 (n = 1), 21/21/15 | 23/23/17 (n = 1) |
| 22/23/17 (n = 1) | 25/23/21 (n = 4), or | (n = 12), 21/21/16 (n = 3), | ||||
| 23/23/19 (n = 2) | 21/21/17 (n = 2), 21/23/17 | |||||
| (n = 2), 23/23/16 (n = | ||||||
| 2), 23/23/17 (n = 14), | ||||||
| 23/23/18 (n = 1), 23/23/19 | ||||||
| (n = 3) | ||||||
| Keels | present, small or indistinct | absent | present, conspicuous | present | absent or indistinct | absent |
| Ventrals | 162 (♂) (n = 1); | 200 (♂) (n = 1) | 148–160 (♂) (n = 4); | 154–155 (♀) (n = 2) | 164–178 (♂) (n = 20); | 196–203 (♀) (n = 2) |
| 156 (♀) (n = 1) | 146–156 (♀) (n = 9) | 167–183 (♀) (n = 30) | ||||
| Rostral scale | present, entire | present, entire | present, entire | present, entire | present, entire | present, entire |
| Temporals | 3 + 4 + 3 (n = 1) or | 3 + 4 (n = 1) | 2 + 3 (n = 13) | 2 + 3 (n = 2) | 2 + 3 (n = 8) | 2 + 3 (n = 2) |
| 2 + 3 + 3 (n = 1) | ||||||
| Subcaudals | 33 (♂) (n = 1); | 41 (♂) (n = 1) | 25–33 (♂) (n = 9); | 26–30 (♀) (n = 2) | 29–38 (♂) (n = 19); 30–37 | 27 (♀) (n = 1) |
| 30 (♀) (n = 1) | 23–27 (♀) (n = 4) | (♀) (n = 29) | ||||
| Supralabials | 8–10 (n = 2) | 11 (n = 1) | 8–11 (n = 13) | 10–11 (n = 2) | 8–10 (n = 12) | 9–10 (n = 1) |
| Infralabials | 9–10 (n = 2) | 11 (n = 1) | 9–11 (n = 13) | 11–12 (n = 2) | 8–11 (n = 12) | 11–12 (n = 2) |
| Dorsal pattern | uniformly light brown, | large dark brown | striped-spotted, lateral | small dark brown | small dark brown spots | irregular dark brown |
| small diffuse brown spots | spots over a light gray | orange stripes over a | spots over a dark | over a dark brown | blotches over a dark | |
| background | dark brown background | brown background | background, vertebral | brown background | ||
| light brown stripe | ||||||
| Ventral pattern | large black blotches on an | alternating black | alternating black | alternating black | large black elliptical | alternating large black |
| orange background | elliptical blotches | squares on a white | elliptical blotches | blotches on an orange | squares | |
| background | background | |||||
| Eyelashes | absent | absent | absent | absent | absent | absent |
| Parietal contact | in contact | separated | usually separated | separated | in contact | in contact |
| Interparietals | absent or small | present, conspicuous | present, conspicuous | present, conspicuous | usually absent | absent |
| Maximum SVL (mm) | 320 (♂), 255 (♀) | 299 (♂) | 335 (♂), 348 (♀) | 289 (♀) | 336 (♂), 357 (♀) | 449 (♀) |
| Geographic | Northeastern Ecuador | Ecuador, but likely | Southeastern Ecuador | Northeastern Brazil | Southeastern Brazil | Southeastern Brazil |
| distribution | from Greater Antilles | and Northeastern Peru. |
Notes
Published as part of Ortega-Andrade, H. Mauricio, Bentley, Alexander, Koch, Claudia, Yánez-Muñoz, Mario H. & Entiauspe-Neto, Omar M., 2022, A time relic: a new species of dwarf boa, Tropidophis Bibron, 1840 (Serpentes: Amerophidia), from the Upper Amazon Basin, pp. 24 in European Journal of Taxonomy 854 (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.854.2021, http://zenodo.org/record/7501327
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- Curcio F. F., Sales Nunes P. M., Argolo A. J. S., Skuk G. & Rodrigues M. T. 2012. Taxonomy of the South American dwarf boas of the genus Tropidophis Bibron, 1840, with the description of two new species from the Atlantic forest (Serpentes: Tropidophiidae). Herpetological Monographs 26 (1): 80 - 121. https: // doi. org / 10.1655 / HERPMONOGRAPHS-D- 10 - 00008.1