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Atractus altagratiae Passos & Fernandes 2008
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
Atractus altagratiae Passos & Fernandes, 2008
(Fig. 21)
Holotype. Adult male, MNRJ 7888, collected by Helmut Sick in July 1957 at Upper Cururú River (07°12'S, 58°04'W [approximate]; 127 m asl [approximate]), a tributary of the Teles Pires River, Municipality of Jacareacanga [Municipality of Itaituba and ca. 44 m asl as informed by the authors], State of Pará, Brazil.
Remarks. Holotype (240 mm SVL) with prepared hemipenis kept inside a cryotube together with specimen. 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 32, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5698.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/17325408
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MNRJ
- Material sample ID
- MNRJ 7888
- Scientific name authorship
- Passos & Fernandes
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Dipsadidae
- Genus
- Atractus
- Species
- altagratiae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Atractus altagratiae Passos, 2008 sec. Passos, Rodrigues, Pinna, Woitovicz-Cardoso, Fernandes & Caramaschi, 2025
References
- Passos, P. & Fernandes, R. (2008) A new species of the colubrid snake genus Atractus (Reptilia: Serpentes) from the central Amazon. Zootaxa, 1849 (1), 59-66. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1849.1.4