Helicops modestus Guenther , 1861
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Helicops modestus Guenther, 1861
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: SMF 17802 View Materials ; recordedBy: I. Duschanek leg.; individualCount: 1; sex: female; Taxon: scientificName: Helicops modestus Günther, 1861; Location : country: Brazil; stateProvince: Sao Paulo; Event : year: 1881; Record Level : institutionID: SMF Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: SMF 17803 View Materials ; recordedBy: I. Duschanek leg.; individualCount: 1; sex: female; Taxon: scientificName: Helicops modestus Günther, 1861; Location : country: Brazil; stateProvince: Sao Paulo; Event : year: 1881; Record Level : institutionID: SMF Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: SMF 17804 View Materials ; recordedBy: C. Müller leg.; individualCount: 1; sex: female; Taxon: scientificName: Helicops modestus Günther, 1861; Location : country: Brazil; stateProvince: Sao Paulo; Event : year: 1876; Record Level : institutionID: SMF Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: SMF 17805 View Materials ; recordedBy: C. Müller leg.; individualCount: 1; sex: female; Taxon: scientificName: Helicops modestus Günther, 1861; Location : country: Brazil; stateProvince: Sao Paulo; Event : year: 1876; Record Level : institutionID: SMF Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: SMF 17806 View Materials ; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Taxon: scientificName: Helicops modestus Günther, 1861; Location : country: Brazil; stateProvince: Sao Paulo; Record Level : institutionID: SMF Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: SMF 49724 View Materials ; recordedBy: M. Schetty leg.; individualCount: 1; sex: female; Taxon: scientificName: Helicops modestus Günther, 1861; Location : country: Brazil; stateProvince: Sao Paulo; locality: Umgebung von Sao Paulo ; Event : year: 1955; Record Level : institutionID: SMF Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: SMF 49725 View Materials ; recordedBy: M. Schetty leg.; individualCount: 1; sex: female; Taxon: scientificName: Helicops modestus Günther, 1861; Location : country: Brazil; stateProvince: Sao Paulo; locality: Umgebung von Sao Paulo ; Event : year: 1955; Record Level : institutionID: SMF Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: SMF 49726 View Materials ; recordedBy: M. Schetty leg.; individualCount: 1; sex: female; Taxon: scientificName: Helicops modestus Günther, 1861; Location : country: Brazil; stateProvince: Sao Paulo; locality: Umgebung von Sao Paulo ; Event : year: 1955; Record Level : institutionID: SMF Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: SMF 49727 View Materials ; recordedBy: M. Schetty leg.; individualCount: 1; sex: female; Taxon: scientificName: Helicops modestus Günther, 1861; Location : country: Brazil; stateProvince: Sao Paulo; locality: Umgebung von Sao Paulo ; Event : year: 1955; Record Level : institutionID: SMF Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: SMF 51207 View Materials ; recordedBy: R. Mertens leg.; individualCount: 1; sex: female; Taxon: scientificName: Helicops modestus Günther, 1861; Location : country: Brazil; stateProvince: Sao Paulo; locality: Sao Miguel Paulista ; Event : year: 1955; Record Level : institutionID: SMF Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: SMF 91211 View Materials ; recordedBy: F. Weidinger leg.; individualCount: 1; sex: female; Taxon: scientificName: Helicops modestus Günther, 1861; Location : country: Brazil; stateProvince: Embu ; locality: 25 km von Sao Paulo ; Event : year: 1954; Record Level : institutionID: SMF Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: ZMB 2266 ; recordedBy: Reinhardt leg.; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Taxon : scientificName: Helicops modestus Günther, 1861; Location: country: Brazil; Record Level: institutionID: ZMB
Diagnosis
Helicops modestus differs from all its congeners, except H. carinicaudus , H. danieli , H. infrataeniatus , H. leopardinus , H. phantasma and H. tapajonicus by the absence of subcaudal keels and having 19 dorsal scale rows at anterior body. From the remaining species, it differs in having a black to dark green dorsum with indistinct longitudinal stripes and a nearly uniform light cream venter, sometimes with faint flecks; (for information on references, see Suppl. material 3).
Distribution
Helicops modestus is occurring from the Brazilian Province Bahia to the Province Paraná and seems to range from the east shore of Brazil to the south of Mato Grosso. There is also one literature record from Volta Grande do Xingu in the Brazilian Province Para, near its estuary into the Amazon ( Vaz-Silva et al. 2015, Fig. 2 d).
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