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Amphisbaena nigricauda Gans 1966
Authors/Creators
- 1. Departamento de Vertebrados, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20940 - 040, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil & ppassos @ mn. ufrj. br; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1775 - 0970
- 2. Departamento de Vertebrados, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20940 - 040, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil & rafael. matossr @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0009 - 3201 - 6529
- 3. Departamento de Vertebrados, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20940 - 040, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil & pedropinna @ mn. ufrj. br; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0265 - 8263
- 4. Departamento de Vertebrados, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20940 - 040, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil & manoela @ mn. ufrj. br; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1011 - 9075
- 5. Departamento de Vertebrados, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20940 - 040, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil & ronfernandes @ mn. ufrj. br; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7137 - 3037
- 6. Departamento de Vertebrados, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20940 - 040, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil & Departamento de Vertebrados, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20940 - 040, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil & ulisses @ mn. ufrj. br; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1534 - 1038 * Corresponding author
Description
Amphisbaena nigricauda Gans, 1966
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Holotype. Adult female, MNRJ 3305, collected by F.M. Oliveira on 10 November 1964 at Sooretama Biological Reserve (19°03'24"S, 40°08'51"W [approximate]; 60 m asl [approximate]), Municipality of Sooretama [formerly Municipality of Linhares], State of Espírito Santo, Brazil.
Paratypes. AMNH 97205, FMNH 264973.
Remarks. The paratype FMNH 264973 was first catalogued in the Carl Gans personal collection (CG 3207) and then transferred to FMNH. No tissue samples available.
Notes
Published as part of Passos, Paulo, Rodrigues, Rafael, Pinna, Pedro H., Woitovicz-Cardoso, Manoela, Fernandes, Ronaldo & Caramaschi, Ulisses, 2025, Filling gaps between museum and society: An illustrated catalog of the primary type specimens of Squamata housed in the Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, pp. 1-91 in Zootaxa 5698 (1) on page 17, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5698.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/17325408
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AMNH , FMNH , MNRJ
- Material sample ID
- AMNH 97205 , FMNH 264973 , MNRJ 3305
- Event date
- 1964-11-10
- Verbatim event date
- 1964-11-10
- Scientific name authorship
- Gans
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Amphisbaenidae
- Genus
- Amphisbaena
- Species
- nigricauda
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype , paratype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Amphisbaena nigricauda Gans, 1966 sec. Passos, Rodrigues, Pinna, Woitovicz-Cardoso, Fernandes & Caramaschi, 2025
References
- Gans, C. (1966) Studies on amphisbaenids (Amphisbaenia, Reptilia). 3. The small forms from southern South America commonly identified as Amphisbaena darwini. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 134, 185-260. https://doi.org/10.2307/1441079