Atlantic Forest Racer
Dendrophidion atlantica Freire, Caramaschi & Gonçalves, 2010
Also calledCobra-Corredeira-da-Mata-Atlântica (por)
First described in: Freire, Eliza Maria Xavier; Ulisses Caramaschi & Ubiratan Gonçalves. A new species of Dendrophidion (Serpentes: Colubridae) from the Atlantic Rain Forest of Northeastern Brazil.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
discussion
Remarks. Holotype (595 mm SVL) with prepared hemipenis kept inside a cryotube together with specimen. No tissue samples available.
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
materials_examined
Holotype. Adult male, MNRJ 17018, collected by Ubiratan Gonçalves on 05 December 2006 at Engenho Coimbra Forest (08 ° 59 ' S, 35 ° 53 ' W [informed]; 526 m asl [informed]), Municipality of Ibateguara, State of Alagoas, Brazil. Paratypes. CHBEZ 853, CHBEZ 697, CHBEZ 2201 – 2202, MNRJ 17019 – 17021, MUFAL 327, MUFAL 2245, MUFAL 6064 – 6065.
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
distribution
Distribution. Endemic to Brazil (Plt. 130 A). Restricted to a small portion of the northeastern Atlantic Forest (Plt. 130 A) at low elevations (Plt. 130 B). Observed in the field in forest and forest edge (Freire et al., 2010).
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
materials_examined
Type locality. Mata do Engenho Coimbra, Ibateguara, state of Alagoas, Brazil.
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 7456196.