Helicops boitata Moraes-da-Silva, Amaro, Sales-Nunes, Struessmann , Teixeira, Andrade, Sudre , Recoder, Rodrigues, Curcio, 2019
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Helicops boitata Moraes-da-Silva, Amaro, Sales-Nunes, Struessmann , Teixeira, Andrade, Sudre , Recoder, Rodrigues, Curcio, 2019 |
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Diagnosis
Helicops boitata differs from all its congeners by the combination of an entire nasal scale and 25 dorsal scale rows at mid-body, reducing to 21 anterior to cloaca (versus 17/15 in H. nentur ; 28-28/18-20 in H. yacu ) (for information on references, see Suppl. material 3).
Distribution
Helicops boitata is only known from the Pantanal at Transpantaneira Road in the Municipality of Pocone, Mato Grosso, Brazil (Fig. 1 c).
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