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Copeoglossum oreades Ferreira-Junior, Vrcibradic, Sudre & Passos 2025
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
Copeoglossum oreades Ferreira-Junior, Vrcibradic, Sudré & Passos, 2025
(Fig. 50)
Holotype. Adult male, MNRJ 6012, collected by Nelson Jorge da Silva and other collaborators as part of Lobo Guará rescue operation in 1997 at the Serra da Mesa Hydroelectric Power Plant (13º50'03"S, 48º18'16"W [approximate]; 454 m asl [approximate]), Municipality of Minaçu, State of Goiás, Brazil.
Paratypes. MNRJ 5111–5135, MNRJ 5910–5920, MNRJ 5922–5923, MNRJ 5925–5941, MNRJ 5943–5964, MNRJ 5966–5970, MNRJ 5972–5973, MNRJ 5975, MNRJ 5977–5978, MNRJ 5980–6011, MNRJ 6013–6015, MNRJ 6017–6020, MNRJ 6022–6024, MNRJ 6027–6028, MNRJ 6030, MNRJ 6032, MNRJ 6034–6045, MNRJ 6047–6048, MNRJ 6050, MNRJ 6052–6064, MNRJ 6066–6073, MNRJ 6076–6077, MNRJ 6079–6086, MNRJ 6088, MNRJ 6091–6093, MNRJ 6095–6098, MNRJ 12695–12696, MNRJ 26876.
Remarks. Holotype (89.4 mm SVL). Tissue samples available to paratype MNRJ 12969.
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 72, 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 12695-12696 , MNRJ 26876 , MNRJ 5111-5135 , MNRJ 5910-5920 , MNRJ 5922-5923 , MNRJ 5925-5941 , MNRJ 5943-5964 , MNRJ 5966-5970 , MNRJ 5972-5973 , MNRJ 5975 , MNRJ 5977-5978 , MNRJ 5980-6011 , MNRJ 6012 , MNRJ 6013-6015 , MNRJ 6017-6020 , MNRJ 6022-6024 , MNRJ 6027-6028 , MNRJ 6030 , MNRJ 6032 , MNRJ 6034-6045 , MNRJ 6047-6048 , MNRJ 6050 , MNRJ 6052-6064 , MNRJ 6066-6073 , MNRJ 6076-6077 , MNRJ 6079-6086 , MNRJ 6088 , MNRJ 6091-6093 , MNRJ 6095-6098
- Scientific name authorship
- Ferreira-Junior, Vrcibradic, Sudre & Passos
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Scincidae
- Genus
- Copeoglossum
- Species
- oreades
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype , paratype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Copeoglossum oreades Ferreira-Junior, 2025 sec. Passos, Rodrigues, Pinna, Woitovicz-Cardoso, Fernandes & Caramaschi, 2025
References
- Ferreira-Junior, J. C., Vrcibradic, D., Sudre, V. & Passos, P. (2025) A saucerful of secrets: comparative osteology of the genus Copeoglossum Tschudi, 1845 (Squamata: Scincidae) reveals a new species from Central Brazil. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 317, 91-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2025.05.008