Helicops polylepis Guenther , 1861
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Helicops polylepis Guenther, 1861
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MTKD 15507 ; individualCount: 1; sex: female; Taxon : scientificName: Helicops polylepis Günther, 1861; Location : country: Columbia; Record Level: institutionID: MTKD Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MTKD 15508 ; individualCount: 1; sex: female; Taxon : scientificName: Helicops polylepis Günther, 1861; Location : country: Columbia; Record Level: institutionID: MTKD Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: SMF 17821 View Materials ; recordedBy: F. Werner leg.; individualCount: 1; sex: female; Taxon : scientificName: Helicops polylepis Günther, 1861; Location : country: Bolivia; stateProvince: Chaco ; Record Level: institutionID: SMF Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: SMF 17822 View Materials ; recordedBy: C.A. Hahn leg.; individualCount: 1; sex: female; Taxon : scientificName: Helicops polylepis Günther, 1861; Location : country: Bolivia; Record Level: institutionID: SMF Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: ZMB 17428 View Materials ; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Taxon: scientificName: Helicops polylepis Günther, 1861; Location : country: Brazil; stateProvince: Bahia; Record Level : institutionID: ZMB Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: ZMB 26215 View Materials ; recordedBy: Stoecker leg.; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Taxon: scientificName: Helicops polylepis Günther, 1861; Location : country: Bolivia; stateProvince: La Paz; locality: La Paz ; Record Level : institutionID: ZMB Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: ZMB 30993 View Materials ; individualCount: 1; Taxon: scientificName: Helicops polylepis Günther, 1861; Record Level: institutionID: ZMB
Diagnosis
Helicops polylepis can be distinguished from all its congeners by the combination of absent intergenials, a semi-divided nasal scale and 23-26 dorsal scale rows at mid-body (versus 17-20 in H. angulatus ; 21-22 in H. apiaka ; 17-19 in H. carinidaudus ; 17-20 in H. infrataeniatus and H. modestus ; 18-20 in H. danieli ; 19 in H. gomesi ; 18-22 in H. leopardinus ; 19 in H. phantasma ; 23-26 in H. polylepis ; 19 in H. tapajonicus ; (for information on references, see Suppl. material 3).
Distribution
Helicops polylepis is recorded from southern Bolivia to the Amazon Estuary and from Peru to the east of the Brazilian Province Para. There are also two reports from Colombia (Fig. 3 c).
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