Roadkill records of reptiles and birds in Cerrado and Pantanal landscapes
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Fischer, Wagner
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Faria de Godoi, Raquel
Author
Conceição Paranhos Filho, Antonio
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http://dx.doi.org/10.15560/14.5.845
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10.15560/14.5.845
1809-127X
Thamnodynastes hypoconia
(Cope, 1860)
Record.
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Figure 10.
An adult specimen of
Xenodon matogrossensis
captured in roadside habitats (similar to the road-killed individual recorded on BR-262). Photograph: C Santos.
The Bush Snake individual was identified by its size (TL =
42.5 cm
; tail length = 23.5% of TL), cylindrical, narrow body, scale count (2 or 3 temporal, 8 supralabial, and 9 infralabial scales, with 19 rows of dorsal scales, which are imbricated and keeled in the midbody), and color pattern. This species had sepia-bronze dorsal color with black and white spots and sepia tone lines in longitudinal dorsal rows, with a yellowish dorsal line. The belly was yellowish with a dark mesh-like pattern. There was a dark stripe on the head from the eye to the corner of the mouth (
Fig. 9
), as verified by other specimens (e.g. ZUFMS-REP01000,
REP01018
and
REP02477
).