Reptilia

Rocha, Carlos Frederico Duarte, Telles, Felipe Bottona da Silva, Vrcibradic, Davor & Nogueira-Costa, Paulo, 2018, The Herpetofauna from Ilha Grande (Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil): updating species composition, richness, distribution and endemisms, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 58, pp. 1-12 : 8

Reptilia

Ophiodes – The lizard genus Ophiodes is currently a problematic taxon, requiring a comprehensive review. One individual at the collection of Museu Nacional is labeled Ophiodes fragilis (Raddi, 1820) . The name O. fragilis has been widely used for specimens from southeastern Brazil and portions of Argentina and Paraguay ( Pizzatto, 2005; Avila et al., 2013; Cacciali & Scott, 2015). Nevertheless, a proper redescription and revalidation of O. fragilis has not yet been published ( Costa & Bérnils, 2015). Thus, we follow Montechiaro et al. (2011) and take a conservative stance by referring to the specimen from Ilha Grande as Ophiodes cf. striatus .

Thamnodynastes – Snakes from the genus Thamnodynastes from Ilha Grande present anoth- er taxonomic problem. They have been referred to as Thamnodynastes strigilis by Ariani et al. (2006) and Rocha et al. (2009), and as Thamnodynastes cf. strigilis by Rocha & van Sluys (2006), but T. strigilis is currently considered a synonym of T. pallidus , a species that does not occur in southeastern Brazil ( Bailey et al., 2005). The name T. nattereri (or T. cf. nattereri ) have also been recently attribut- ed to the Atlantic Forest Thamnodynastes commonly referred to “ strigilis ” or “ cf. strigilis ” in the literature ( Dorigo et al., 2014; Franco et al., 2017). Indeed, the specimens from Ilha Grande deposited in the institutional collections we surveyed are all labeled as either T. cf. nattereri , Thamnodynastes sp. , or (in one case) T. pallidus nattereri . For the present list we conventionally follow the most recent authors and attribute the name Thamnodynastes cf. nattereri for the specimens from Ilha Grande, though we are aware that this is a provisional designation, given the current nomenclatural problems involving the epithet “ nattereri ” ( Franco & Ferreira, 2002; Bellini et al., 2014; Dorigo et al., 2014; Franco et al., 2017).