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PhD student in Biodiversity and Nature Conservation (UFJF). I have experience in Zoology, Morphology and Anatomy. Currently I am linked to the Laboratory of Herpetology at UFJF (Zoology Department) developing activities related to computed tomography, cranial osteology, geometric morphometry and natural history of Amphisbaenia and geographic distribution of reptiles.
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- PhD student in Biodiversity and Nature Conservation
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The skull anatomy of amphisbaenians directly influences their capacity to burrow and is crucial for the study of their systematics, which ultimately contributes to our comprehension of their evolution and ecology. In this study, we employed three-dimensional X-ray computed tomography to provide a detailed description and comprehensive comparison of...
Amphisbaena mitchelli is a small-sized worm lizard species described from Ilha de Marajó, state of Pará, Brazil. After its description, few publications brought new distribution records for A. mitchelli, all in eastern Amazonia. In this paper we report a new record of the species in municipality of Imperatriz, state of Maranhão, Brazil. The new rec...
Hypopigmentation is characterized by the lack of melanin in part or the whole body. For nocturnal or fossorial reptiles, hypopigmentation may be less disadvantageous, as they are less exposed to visually oriented predators. But chromatic anomalies are challenging to observe in fossorial species, such as worm lizards (Amphisbaenia), because they are...
Color anomalies are rarely reported in Amphisbaenia. We present the first record of amelanism in this group based on a specimen of Amphisbaena darwinii from Argentina. The photos were uploaded to a citizen science platform, reinforcing the positive impact of citizen science to filling gaps in our knowledge about biodiversity.
