A new species of Dipsas (Squamata: Colubridae) from Guyana

dc.creatorMacCulloch,Ross D.
dc.creatorLathrop,Amy
dc.date2004-03-01
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-25T14:00:34Z
dc.date.available2023-09-25T14:00:34Z
dc.identifierhttp://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-77442004000100031
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/8810364
dc.descriptionA new species of Dipsas is described from the Pakaraima Mountains of Guyana. The new species is characterised by 15 dorsal scale rows with the middorsal row slightly enlarged, four pairs of chinshields with the first pair elongate, elongate loreal entering orbit, one preocular, six upper labials, and head narrow anteriorly, increasing in width posteriorly. It could not be determined to which of Peters (1960) species groups the new species belongs. The new species is known only from 1490 m elevation on Mount Ayanganna, a tepui in the Guiana Shield, where it was found in high-tepui low-canopy habitat, in bromeliads or branches. This is the first record of Dipsas as a member of the Guiana Shield high-tepui herpetofauna
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dc.languageen
dc.publisherUniversidad de Costa Rica
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.sourceRevista de Biología Tropical v.52 n.1 2004
dc.subjectColubridae
dc.subjectDipsas
dc.subjectnew species
dc.subjectGuyana
dc.subjectPakaraima Mountains
dc.subjecttepuis
dc.titleA new species of Dipsas (Squamata: Colubridae) from Guyana
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article


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