Description of a new species of Xenopholis (Serpentes: Colubridae) from the Cerrado of Bolivia, with comments on Xenopholis scalaris in Bolivia

作者：Jansen Martin^*; Gonzales Alvarez Lucindo; Koehler Gunther

来源：Zootaxa, 2009, 2222(2222): 31-45.

DOI：10.11646/zootaxa.2222.1.3

• Chiquitano Region
• Department of Santa Cruz
• Reptilia
• San Sebastian
• Snakes
• Squamata
• Xenopholis werdingorum sp nov.

We describe a new species of Xenopholis from the Chiquitano Region in the eastern lowlands of Bolivia. The new species can be identified as member of the genus Xenopholis by its vertebral morphology. The new species differs from the other two species of Xenopholis in its unique, uniform dorsal color pattern. It further differs from X. scalaris by having two prefrontals and a narrow septum within each neural spine and perpendicular to its long axis. For X. scalaris we present new records from Bolivia, including the highest altitudinal record for the species and genus (Serrania Beu in the Pilon Lajas Reserve, Department of La Paz, 1500 m).

• 出版日期2009-9-7