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UPDATED DISTRIBUTION MAP OF AMPHISBAENA MITCHELLI PROCTER, 1923
(SQUAMATA: AMPHISBAENIDAE) WITH A NEW RECORD IN MARANHÃO, BRAZIL
MAPA DE DISTRIBUCIÓN ACTUALIZADO DE AMPHISBAENA MITCHELLI PROCTER, 1923 (SQUAMATA:
AMPHISBAENIDAE) CON UN NUEVO REGISTRO EN MARANHÃO, BRASIL
Carolina L. Paiva1*†, Henrique J. Oliveira1† & Henrique C. Costa1
1Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Conservação da Natureza, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. 36036-900, Juiz de Fora, Minas
Gerais, Brazil.
†Contributed equally to this work
*Correspondence: carolina22paiva@gmail.com
Received: 2023-07-06. Accepted: 2023-10-09. Published: 2023-11-10.
Editor: Katyuscia Araujo-Vieira, Brasil.
NOTA DE DISTRIBUCIÓN
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knowledge gaps on biodiversity, reducing the Wallacean shortfall
Amphisbaena mitchelli
Brazil (Colli et al., 2016). It is diagnosed by having a round head,
6th or 7th annulus, two precloacal pores sequentially arranged,
publications brought to light new distribution records for A.
mitchelli
In this note, we report A. mitchelli
collected between June and July 2011 (collector and date unknown)
and deposited in the Herpetology Collection of Museu de História
A. mitchelli
Amphisbaena
mitchelli
burrow at shallow depths or live in large rotten logs or close to
A. mitchelli is found are based
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Figura 1. Espécimen MHNCI 14186 de Imperatriz, Maranhão, Brasil, identicado como Amphisbaena mitchelli por tener una cabeza redonda, 217 anillos corporales, 26 anillos caudales
con autotomía en el séptimo anillo, dos poros precloacales dispuestos secuencialmente, sulcos dorsales y laterales, 12 segmentos dorsales y 14 segmentos ventrales en un anillo del cuerpo
medio, y tres supralabiales y tres infralabiales.
Figure 1.Specimen MHNCI 14186 from Imperatriz, Maranhão, Brazil, identied as Amphisbaena mitchelli by having a round head, 217 body annuli, 26 caudal annuli with autotomy at the 7th
annulus, two precloacal pores sequentially arranged, dorsal and lateral sulci, 12 dorsal and 14 ventral segments at a midbody annulus, and three supra- and three infralabials.
Amphisbaena mitchelli has been recorded inside forests, and
sensu
species range, an ecotonal zone between the Cerrado ecoregion
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Figura 2. Mapa de distribución actualizado para Amphisbaena mitchelli. Localidad tipo en rojo, nuevo registro en negro y otros registros en blanco. Las localidades 9, 10, 12–15, 19, 20,
y 23 no están numeradas debido a la corta distancia entre puntos adyacentes. Para obtener más detalles sobre los registros en la literatura, consulte la Tabla S1 disponible en https://doi.
org/10.5281/zenodo.8422924 (donde los códigos de las colecciones de historia natural siguen a Sabaj (2020)). AP: Amapá; MA: Maranhão; PA: Pará; PI: Piauí; TO: Tocantins.
Figure 2. Updated distribution map for Amphisbaena mitchelli. Type locality in red, new record in black and other records in white. Localities 9, 10, 12–15, 19, 20, and 23 are not numbered
because of the short distance between points. For details on records in literature, see Table S1 available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8422924 (in which codes for natural history
collections follow Sabaj (2020)). AP: Amapá; MA: Maranhão; PA: Pará; PI: Piauí; TO: Tocantins.
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CITED LITERATURE
Amphisbaena mitchelli
Procter, 1923 and A. miringoera
rare Amphisbaena spurrelli
Dinerstein, E., D. Olson, A. Joshi, C. Vynne, N.D. Burgess, E. Wikra-
Database, version 1.2.<
,
Amphisbaena mitchelli Procter
and Amphisbaena slevini
Amphisbaena mitchelli
Amphisbaena
Amphisbaena
miringoera
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Amphisbaena mitchelli
Procter, 1923 in the state of Pará, Brazil. Check List 10:1229-1230.
Ichthyology and Herpetology. Copeia 108:593-669.
Amphisbaena mitchelli
2021. ,
Amphisbaena
Amphisbaena
Zoologia 37:259-276.