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Atractus francoi Passos, Fernandes, Bernils & Moura-Leite 2010
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 francoi Passos, Fernandes, Bérnils & Moura-Leite, 2010
(Fig. 24)
Holotype. Adult male, MNRJ 17537 (formerly ZUFRJ 1742), collected by Marion Cony Carlo on 17 July 2006 at Recanto Farm, Serra do Piloto (22°57'S, 44°02'W [approximate]; 600 m asl [approximate]), Municipality of Mangaratiba, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Paratypes. IBSP 53924, IBSP 72654, IBSP 74648, IBSP 74723–74724, IBSP 53924, MNRJ 17536.
Remarks. Holotype (420 mm SVL) and paratype (IBSP 72654) with prepared hemipenes. Hemipenis of the holotype kept inside cryotube together with specimen. The paratypes from the IBSP were not affected by the 2010 fire accident because they were on loan to MNRJ. 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 37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5698.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/17325408
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- IBSP , MNRJ , MNRJ, ZUFRJ
- Material sample ID
- IBSP 53924 , IBSP 72654 , IBSP 74648 , IBSP 74723-74724 , MNRJ 17536 , MNRJ 17537
- Event date
- 2006-07-17
- Verbatim event date
- 2006-07-17
- Scientific name authorship
- Passos, Fernandes, Bernils & Moura-Leite
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Dipsadidae
- Genus
- Atractus
- Species
- francoi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype , paratype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Atractus francoi Passos, 2010 sec. Passos, Rodrigues, Pinna, Woitovicz-Cardoso, Fernandes & Caramaschi, 2025
References
- Passos, P., Fernandes, R., Bernils, R. S. & Moura-Leite, J. C. (2010) Taxonomic revision of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest Atractus (Reptilia: Serpentes: Dipsadidae). Zootaxa, 2364 (1), 1-63. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2364.1.1