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2640 (field n° PK 1365), an adult male, collected along a tributary of Elinkwa River, ESE Kaieteur National Park,
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elevation, Potaro-Siparuni District,
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by P. J. R. Kok, Paul Benjamin and Giuliano Seegobin.
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2641 (field n° PK 1372), a subadult female collected on
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, same data as the
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2642 (field n° PK 1550), an adult female collected at the same locality as the
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, in
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by G. Seegobin.
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The specific name is a noun in the genitive case, honoring Michael Tamessar, retired Senior Scientific Officer of the Department of Biology at the University of
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(UG). Mike Tamessar spent most of his life encouraging Guyanese students to pursue studies in the fields of ichthyology and herpetology. Mike also collected many of the amphibians and reptiles in the collection of the Centre for Study of the Biological Diversity (CSBD) at UG.
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An
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species with 15 dorsal scale rows that can be distinguished from all other congeners by the following combination of characters: (1) medium size, adults reaching about
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in TTL; (2) loreal much longer than high and touching the eye; (3) two postoculars; (4) eight supralabials, fourth and fifth touching the eye; (5) seven to eight infralabials, four in contact with chinshield; (6) six maxillary teeth; (7) 153163 ventrals; (8) 2831 subcaudals; (9) dorsal color pattern of irregular red or pale red markings, sometimes forming an incomplete broken dorsolateral stripe, on a medium brown to brownish black ground color; (10) venter yellowish cream, heavily mottled with brownish black.
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The new species can be referred to the genus
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because it possesses the following combination of characters: medium size; head small, slightly distinct from neck; eye small, with semi-elliptical pupil; scales smooth; dorsal scales in 15 rows without reduction; loreal present, touching the eye and separating prefrontals and supralabials; nostril between two scales; single pair of chinshields; anal single; subcaudals divided; maxillary teeth decreasing in size posteriorly; occurring in northern South
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(
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).
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By having 15 dorsal scale rows at midbody,
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differs from all
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species having 17 scale rows in the
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Shield (
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,
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&amp; Nascimento 1983
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,
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<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF84FFD395DFA1E0775DADC4" box="[480,625,1484,1509]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="21">A. duidensis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFDACCCAFF84FFD39645A1E077D0ADC7" author="Roze" box="[634,764,1484,1510]" lastPageId="2" lastPageNumber="34" pageId="2" pageNumber="33" refString="Roze, J. A. (1961) El genero Atractus (Serpentes: Colubridae) en Venezuela. Acta Biologica Venezuelica, 3, 103 - 119." type="journal article" year="1961">Roze 1961</bibRefCitation>
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,
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<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF84FFD39735A1E07641ADC4" box="[778,877,1484,1509]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="21">A. favae</emphasis>
(
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)
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF84FFD39014A1E071CCADC4" box="[1067,1248,1484,1509]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="21">A. flammigerus</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFDACCCAFF84FFD390CEA1E0746AAE2F" author="Boie" pageId="2" pageNumber="31" refString="Boie, F. (1827) Bemerkungen uber Merrem's Versuch eines Systems der Amphibien. Marburg. 1820. Erste Lieferung: Ophidier. Isis von Oken, 20, 508 - 566." type="journal article" year="1827">Boie 1827</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C4BCAB8FF84FFD39563A1D8778CAE2F" authority="Gunther 1868" authorityName="Gunther" authorityYear="1868" box="[348,672,1524,1550]" class="Reptilia" family="Colubridae" genus="Atractus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="2" pageNumber="21" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="latifrons">
<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF84FFD39563A1D874F3AE2C" box="[348,479,1524,1549]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="21">A. latifrons</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFDACCCAFF84FFD395D1A1D877BAAE2F" author="Gunther" box="[494,662,1524,1550]" pageId="2" pageNumber="32" refString="Gunther, A. (1868) Sixth account of new species of snakes in the collection of the British Museum. Annals Magazine of Natural History, 4, 413 - 429." type="journal article" year="1868">Günther 1868</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C4BCAB8FF84FFD39693A1D876C0AE2F" authority="Silva Haad 2004" authorityName="Silva Haad" authorityYear="2004" box="[684,1004,1524,1550]" class="Reptilia" family="Colubridae" genus="Atractus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="2" pageNumber="21" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="lucilae">
<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF84FFD39693A1D87631AE2C" box="[684,797,1524,1549]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="21">A. lucilae</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFDACCCAFF84FFD3971BA1D876C0AE2F" author="Silva" box="[804,1004,1524,1550]" pageId="2" pageNumber="34" refString="Silva Haad, J. J. (2004) Las serpientes del genero Atractus Wagler, 1828 (Colubridae, Xenodontinae) en la Amazonia Colombiana. Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales, 28, 409 - 446." type="journal article" year="2004">Silva Haad 2004</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C4BCAB8FF84FFD397C7A1D87009AE2F" authority="Boulenger 1894" authorityName="Boulenger" authorityYear="1894" box="[1016,1317,1524,1550]" class="Reptilia" family="Colubridae" genus="Atractus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="2" pageNumber="21" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="major">
<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF84FFD397C7A1D87173AE2C" box="[1016,1119,1524,1549]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="21">A. major</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFDACCCAFF84FFD39059A1D87009AE2F" author="Boulenger" box="[1126,1317,1524,1550]" pageId="2" pageNumber="31" refString="Boulenger, G. A. (1894) Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History), Volume II. Taylor and Francis, London, 382 pp." type="book" year="1894">Boulenger 1894</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C4BCAB8FF84FFD39537A230772FAE17" authority="Roze 1961" authorityName="Roze" authorityYear="1961" box="[264,515,1564,1590]" class="Reptilia" family="Colubridae" genus="Atractus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="2" pageNumber="21" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="riveroi">
<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF84FFD39537A2307454AE14" box="[264,376,1564,1589]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="21">A. riveroi</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFDACCCAFF84FFD395BEA230772FAE17" author="Roze" box="[385,515,1564,1590]" lastPageId="2" lastPageNumber="34" pageId="2" pageNumber="33" refString="Roze, J. A. (1961) El genero Atractus (Serpentes: Colubridae) en Venezuela. Acta Biologica Venezuelica, 3, 103 - 119." type="journal article" year="1961">Roze 1961</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C4BCAB8FF84FFD3962FA2307631AE17" authority="Boie 1827" authorityName="Boie" authorityYear="1827" box="[528,797,1564,1590]" class="Reptilia" family="Colubridae" genus="Atractus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="2" pageNumber="21" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="schach">
<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF84FFD3962FA23077A8AE14" box="[528,644,1564,1589]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="21">A. schach</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFDACCCAFF84FFD396ABA2307638AE17" author="Boie" box="[660,788,1564,1590]" pageId="2" pageNumber="31" refString="Boie, F. (1827) Bemerkungen uber Merrem's Versuch eines Systems der Amphibien. Marburg. 1820. Erste Lieferung: Ophidier. Isis von Oken, 20, 508 - 566." type="journal article" year="1827">Boie 1827</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C4BCAB8FF84FFD39715A23076FBAE14" box="[810,983,1564,1589]" class="Reptilia" family="Colubridae" genus="Atractus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="2" pageNumber="21" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="snethlageae">
<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF84FFD39715A23076FBAE14" box="[810,983,1564,1589]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="21">A. snethlageae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<bibRefCitation id="EFDACCCAFF84FFD397DFA230700AAE17" author="Cunha" box="[992,1318,1564,1590]" pageId="2" pageNumber="32" refString="Cunha, O. R. &amp; Nascimento, F. P. (1983) Ofidios da Amazonia XX: as especies de Atractus Wagler, 1828, na Amazonia oriental e Maranhao (Ophidia, Colubridae). Boletim do Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, 123, 1 - 38." type="journal article" year="1983">
<collectingCountry id="F35CF1ABFF84FFD397DFA2307100AE17" box="[992,1068,1564,1590]" name="Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha" pageId="2" pageNumber="21">Cunha</collectingCountry>
&amp; Nascimento 1983
</bibRefCitation>
,
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<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF84FFD39537A2687499AE7C" box="[264,437,1604,1629]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="21">A. steyermarki</emphasis>
Roze 1958
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C4BCAB8FF84FFD39670A26871ACAE7F" authority="Dumeril, Bibron &amp; Dumeril 1854" authorityName="Dumeril, Bibron &amp; Dumeril" authorityYear="1854" box="[591,1152,1604,1630]" class="Reptilia" family="Colubridae" genus="Atractus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="2" pageNumber="21" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="torquatus">
<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF84FFD39670A26877CDAE7C" box="[591,737,1604,1629]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="21">A. torquatus</emphasis>
Duméril, Bibron &amp; Duméril 1854
</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName id="4C4BCAB8FF84FFD390FDA268770AAEA7" authority="Gasc &amp; Rodrigues 1979" authorityName="Gasc &amp; Rodrigues" authorityYear="1979" class="Reptilia" family="Colubridae" genus="Atractus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="2" pageNumber="21" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="zidoki">
<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF84FFD390FDA2687007AE7C" box="[1218,1323,1604,1629]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="21">A. zidoki</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFDACCCAFF84FFD39537A240770AAEA7" author="Gasc" box="[264,550,1644,1670]" pageId="2" pageNumber="32" refString="Gasc, J. - P. &amp; Rodrigues, M. T. (1979) Une nouvelle espece du genre Atractus (Colubridae, Serpentes) de la Guyane francaise. Bulletin du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle de Paris, 1, 547 - 557." type="journal article" year="1979">Gasc &amp; Rodrigues 1979</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
. Among the few
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<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF84FFD396D0A240767EAEA4" box="[751,850,1644,1669]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="21">Atractus</emphasis>
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species with 15 dorsal scale rows found in the region,
<taxonomicName id="4C4BCAB8FF84FFD39586A2B877B7AE8C" box="[441,667,1684,1709]" class="Reptilia" family="Colubridae" genus="Atractus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="2" pageNumber="21" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="tamessari">
<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF84FFD39586A2B877B7AE8C" box="[441,667,1684,1709]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="21">Atractus tamessari</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
differs from
<taxonomicName id="4C4BCAB8FF84FFD3977BA2B87140AE8F" authority="Gunther 1858" authorityName="Gunther" authorityYear="1858" box="[836,1132,1684,1710]" class="Reptilia" family="Colubridae" genus="Atractus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="2" pageNumber="21" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="elaps">
<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF84FFD3977BA2B8768BAE8C" box="[836,935,1684,1709]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="21">A. elaps</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFDACCCAFF84FFD39785A2B87149AE8F" author="Gunther" box="[954,1125,1684,1710]" pageId="2" pageNumber="32" refString="Gunther, A. (1858) Catalogue of the colubrine snakes in the collection of the British Museum. Trustees of British Museum, London, 281 pp." type="book" year="1858">Günther 1858</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
by having two postoculars (one in
<taxonomicName id="4C4BCAB8FF84FFD395CDA290777DAEF4" box="[498,593,1724,1749]" class="Reptilia" family="Colubridae" genus="Atractus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="2" pageNumber="21" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="elaps">
<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF84FFD395CDA290777DAEF4" box="[498,593,1724,1749]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="21">A. elaps</emphasis>
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), eight supralabials (six), and no red or yellow rings on body (present); from
<taxonomicName id="4C4BCAB8FF84FFD395F6A2C87652AEDF" authority="Silva Haad 2004" authorityName="Silva Haad" authorityYear="2004" box="[457,894,1764,1790]" class="Reptilia" family="Colubridae" genus="Atractus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="2" pageNumber="21" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="franciscopaivai">
<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF84FFD395F6A2C87789AEDC" box="[457,677,1764,1789]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="21">A. franciscopaivai</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFDACCCAFF84FFD3968EA2C87652AEDF" author="Silva" box="[689,894,1764,1790]" pageId="2" pageNumber="34" refString="Silva Haad, J. J. (2004) Las serpientes del genero Atractus Wagler, 1828 (Colubridae, Xenodontinae) en la Amazonia Colombiana. Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales, 28, 409 - 446." type="journal article" year="2004">Silva Haad 2004</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
by having eight supralabials, three contacting the loreal (five supralabials, two contacting the loreal in
<taxonomicName id="4C4BCAB8FF84FFD39000A3207035AF04" box="[1087,1305,1804,1829]" class="Reptilia" family="Colubridae" genus="Atractus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="2" pageNumber="21" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="franciscopaivai">
<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF84FFD39000A3207035AF04" box="[1087,1305,1804,1829]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="21">A. franciscopaivai</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
), seven to eight infralabials (five), two postoculars (one), 1+2 temporals (1+1), and a yellowish cream venter heavily mottled with brownish black blotches (banded black and orange or black and yellow); from
<taxonomicName id="4C4BCAB8FF85FFD2968AA568714BA97F" authority="Silva Haad 2004" authorityName="Silva Haad" authorityYear="2004" box="[693,1127,324,350]" class="Reptilia" family="Colubridae" genus="Atractus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="3" pageNumber="22" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="heliobelluomini">
<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF85FFD2968AA56876BDA97C" box="[693,913,324,349]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="22">A. heliobelluomini</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFDACCCAFF85FFD297A3A568714BA97F" author="Silva" box="[924,1127,324,350]" pageId="3" pageNumber="34" refString="Silva Haad, J. J. (2004) Las serpientes del genero Atractus Wagler, 1828 (Colubridae, Xenodontinae) en la Amazonia Colombiana. Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales, 28, 409 - 446." type="journal article" year="2004">Silva Haad 2004</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
by having eight supralabials, three contacting the loreal (seven supralabials, two contacting the loreal in
<taxonomicName id="4C4BCAB8FF85FFD2912EA54074ECA98C" class="Reptilia" family="Colubridae" genus="Atractus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="3" pageNumber="22" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="heliobelluomini">
<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF85FFD2912EA54074ECA98C" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="22">A. heliobelluomini</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
), two postoculars (one), 1+2 temporals (1+1), and a yellowish cream venter heavily mottled with brownish black blotches (immaculate cream); from
<taxonomicName id="4C4BCAB8FF85FFD2912EA590772AA9DF" authority="Roze 1961" authorityName="Roze" authorityYear="1961" class="Reptilia" family="Colubridae" genus="Atractus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="3" pageNumber="22" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="insipidus">
<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF85FFD2912EA590745EA9DC" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="22">A. insipidus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFDACCCAFF85FFD295BFA5C8772AA9DF" author="Roze" box="[384,518,484,510]" lastPageId="3" lastPageNumber="34" pageId="3" pageNumber="33" refString="Roze, J. A. (1961) El genero Atractus (Serpentes: Colubridae) en Venezuela. Acta Biologica Venezuelica, 3, 103 - 119." type="journal article" year="1961">Roze 1961</bibRefCitation>
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by having eight supralabials, three contacting the loreal (seven supralabials, two contacting the loreal in
<taxonomicName id="4C4BCAB8FF85FFD29732A62076B2AA04" box="[781,926,524,549]" class="Reptilia" family="Colubridae" genus="Atractus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="3" pageNumber="22" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="insipidus">
<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF85FFD29732A62076B2AA04" box="[781,926,524,549]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="22">A. insipidus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
), and a yellowish cream venter heavily mottled with brownish black blotches (immaculate cream); from
<taxonomicName id="4C4BCAB8FF85FFD29056A6187460AA57" authority="Jan 1862" authorityName="Jan" authorityYear="1862" class="Reptilia" family="Colubridae" genus="Atractus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="3" pageNumber="22" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="poeppigi">
<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF85FFD29056A61871DEAA6C" box="[1129,1266,564,589]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="22">A. poeppigi</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFDACCCAFF85FFD2913DA6187468AA57" author="Jan" lastPageId="3" lastPageNumber="33" pageId="3" pageNumber="32" refString="Jan, G. (1862) Enumerazione sistematica delle specie d'ofidi del gruppo Calamaridae. Archivio per la Zoologia, l'Anatomia e la Fisiologia, 2, 1 - 76." type="journal article" year="1862">Jan 1862</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
by having eight supralabials (six in
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<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF85FFD2973BA67076A1AA54" box="[772,909,604,629]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="22">A. poeppigi</emphasis>
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), 1+2 temporals (0+1 or 0+2), the loreal much longer than high (slightly higher than long), and a yellowish cream venter heavily mottled with brownish black blotches (reddish cream or red and black); and from
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<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF85FFD29537A6F8748FAACC" box="[264,419,724,749]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="22">A. trilineatus</emphasis>
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by having 2831 subcaudal scales (
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<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF85FFD29057A6F8702FAACC" box="[1128,1283,724,749]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="22">A. trilineatus</emphasis>
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), a yellowish cream venter heavily mottled with brownish black blotches (cream with light brown spots on posteriormost ventrals and anal), and by lacking well-defined longitudinal stripes (34 well-defined stripes present).
</paragraph>
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Description of the
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.
</emphasis>
An adult male, TTL
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, SVL
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, TL
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(12.8% of TTL); head slightly distinct from neck, length 1.4 times width (HW: 7.6 mm; HL: 10.8 mm); snout length (from eye to tip of snout) 4.0 mm, snout rounded in dorsal and lateral view; eye small (1.6 mm); pupil semi-elliptical; eye-nostril distance 29% of HL; rostral small, visible in dorsal view, width about 1.8 times height; internasals small, as long as wide, laterally in contact with anterior and posterior nasals; prefrontals large, length 1.4 times width, much larger than the internasals, irregularly hexagonal, touching eye, their medial suture asymmetrical, noticeably dextral to the medial internasal suture; frontal pentagonal, slightly wider than long, 1.1 times length of medial prefrontal suture; parietals large, length 1.5 times width, medial suture of parietals 1.2 times length of frontal. Nasal divided, posterior nasal as long as anterior nasal; preocular absent; loreal long, length 2.8 times height; postoculars 2/2, small, upper slightly larger than lower; temporals 1+2, lower posterior temporal slightly longer than upper; supralabials 8/8, eighth largest, first contacting nasals, second contacting posterior nasal and loreal, third and fourth contacting loreal, fourth and fifth touching eye, sixth contacting postocular and anterior temporal, seventh contacting anterior and posterior temporals, eighth contacting posterior temporal; infralabials 8/8, first four in contact with chinshields, first pair meeting at ventral midline, separating mental from chinshields; one pair of chinshields, length 2.5 times width (
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). Maxillary teeth 6; dorsal scales in 15-15-15 rows, smooth without apical pits; ventrals 153; anal single; paired subcaudals 31.
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Color of
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in life.
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The dorsal ground color is brownish black with numerous irregular bright red and paler red markings. The tail is brownish black with a few bright red lateral markings. The top of the head is brownish black. The snout is lighter, with a slight yellow wash. The supralabials are mostly yellow with the upper third dark brown, except for the eighth, which is almost completely dark brown with a small yellow spot anteriorly, and the first and the second, which are speckled with dark brown. The infralabials are mostly yellow with the lower third and posterior portion of each scale dark brown. The chinshields are mostly yellow with dark brown anteriorly and laterally. The mental groove area has a few dark brown speckles. The venter is yellowish cream with many irregular brownish black blotches, fewer blotches anteriorly, heavily mottled posteriorly. Underside of tail is brownish black with a few small irregular yellowish cream markings. The iris is brown (
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).
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<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF82FFD59537A31D74A7AF68" bold="true" box="[264,395,1841,1865]" pageId="4" pageNumber="23">FIGURE 1.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF82FFD59659A31D7791AF68" bold="true" box="[614,701,1841,1865]" pageId="4" pageNumber="23">sp. nov.</emphasis>
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(holotype, IRSNB 2640): (A) dorsal, (B) lateral, and (C) ventral views of the head.
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<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF83FFD49537A32174A7AF04" bold="true" box="[264,395,1805,1829]" pageId="5" pageNumber="24">FIGURE 2.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF83FFD495ABA3227772AF04" box="[404,606,1806,1829]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="24">Atractus tamessari</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF83FFD4965AA3217790AF04" bold="true" box="[613,700,1805,1829]" pageId="5" pageNumber="24">sp. nov.</emphasis>
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: (A) the male holotype (IRSNB 2640) in life, (B) ventral view of the male holotype (IRSNB 2640) in life, and (C) a subadult female paratopotype (IRSNB 2641) in life.
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Color of
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in preservative.
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After one month in preservative (70% ethanol after formalin), the red markings have faded slightly but are still well visible. The yellow coloration became white. The dark markings are unchanged.
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<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF80FFD79507A6B574E8AA92" bold="true" box="[312,452,665,691]" pageId="6" pageNumber="25">Hemipenis.</emphasis>
Almost fully everted right hemipenis about 10.5 mm long, extending to level of seventh subcaudal when adpressed to the tail; hemipenis differentiated (
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Savage 1960), capitate, slightly bilobed, shallowly forked; lobes distinct from the base, each lobe nearly flattened on apical portion, displaying series of spinulate calyces; capitation stronger on asulcate side; sulcus spermaticus centrifugal, bifurcate, dividing about half of organ, at the base of apex; basal portion of hemipenial body covered by large spines (
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).
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF80FFD79507A79D749DABEA" bold="true" box="[312,433,945,971]" pageId="6" pageNumber="25">Variation.</emphasis>
The
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series consists of the male
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and two female paratopotypes. The paratopotypes strongly resemble the
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with the following exceptions (those of
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in parentheses): TTL from
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; SVL from
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; TL from
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, 9.810.2% of TTL (12.8%); HL from 10.611.5 mm; HW from 7.58.3 mm; 2829 subcaudals (31); 157163 ventrals (153); upper postocular 1.8 times the lower one in IRSNB 2641 (only slightly larger in the
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and in IRSNB 2642); seven infralabials in IRSNB 2642 (eight in the
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and in IRSNB 2641), apparently due to the fusion of infralabials 5 and 6. The sexual dimorphism in the number of ventrals and subcaudals is typical for this genus (Savage 1960). Prefrontal and internasal medial sutures are asymmetrical in both sexes (see
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and
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for further discussion). The most striking difference between the paratopotypes and the
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occurs in dorsal pattern and coloration, which is fairly variable. IRSNB 2641 has a medium brown dorsum with irregular pale reddish brown markings and two ventrolateral black stripes (instead of irregular bright red markings on a brownish black ground without ventrolateral stripes in the
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and IRSNB 2642). In IRSNB 2642 the bright red markings form an incomplete broken dorsolateral stripe. The head of each
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is medium brown and, as in the
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, the snout is lighter with a yellow wash. The pale reddish brown markings on the dorsum of IRSNB 2641 disappeared in preservative, resulting in a uniform medium brown dorsum. Ventral patterns are similar, those of the male
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slightly more mottled than the female paratopotypes (
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).
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<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF80FFD79507A2D57754AF32" bold="true" box="[312,632,1785,1811]" pageId="6" pageNumber="25">Distribution and ecology.</emphasis>
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is known only from the
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locality (
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), which is located in the southeastern part of Kaieteur National Park, at the eastern edge of the
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Mountains (
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). The
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and IRSNB 2641 were collected at night (
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22:30 h), crawling on the ground a few meters from a stream, almost exactly at the same place and the same time, at a 24h interval. IRSNB 2642 was collected by day, apparently sleeping, on a stump in the river. The habitat can be characterized as a submontane forest of the
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uplands on white sands dominated by clump wallaba (
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<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF81FFD6952DA0D27456AD36" box="[274,378,1278,1303]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="26">Dicymbe</emphasis>
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spp) (ter
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). Examination of stomachs revealed no identifiable remains of prey, although X-rays of the male body showed the presence of sand in the digestive tract, which may suggest the recent ingestion of an earthworm, a very common food of
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<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF81FFD69553A15A74FCADAE" box="[364,464,1398,1423]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="26">Atractus</emphasis>
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(
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, “
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” [1999]). No enlarged follicles were found in IRSNB 2641 ovaries; one egg was found in the abdominal cavity of IRSNB 2642, but as the specimen was cut in two by the collector, it is highly probable that other eggs were lost. All specimens have abdominal fat deposits. Other snake species collected in the immediate vicinity are the colubrids
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<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF81FFD69685A23A7653AE0E" box="[698,895,1558,1583]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="26">Chironius fuscus</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF81FFD697B0A23A71E5AE0E" box="[911,1225,1558,1583]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="26">Erythrolamprus aesculapii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF81FFD690E6A23A7444AE76" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="26">Dipsas catesbyi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF81FFD69548A21274E4AE76" box="[375,456,1598,1623]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="26">Dipsas</emphasis>
cf.
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,
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<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF81FFD696BAA2127644AE76" box="[645,872,1598,1623]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="26">Helicops angulatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C4BCAB8FF81FFD69747A2127147AE76" box="[888,1131,1598,1623]" class="Reptilia" family="Colubridae" genus="Pseudoboa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="7" pageNumber="26" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="coronata">
<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF81FFD69747A2127147AE76" box="[888,1131,1598,1623]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="26">Pseudoboa coronata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and the viperid
<taxonomicName id="4C4BCAB8FF81FFD69537A24A74EAAE5E" box="[264,454,1638,1663]" class="Reptilia" family="Viperidae" genus="Bothrops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="7" pageNumber="26" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="brazili">
<emphasis id="B93F6D29FF81FFD69537A24A74EAAE5E" box="[264,454,1638,1663]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="26">Bothrops brazili</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
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