Tropidophis grapiuna

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Alethinophidia 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: ParaHoxozoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Olfactores
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Cladus: Sarcopterygii
Cladus: Rhipidistia
Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha
Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes
Cladus: Elpistostegalia
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Cladus: Sauropsida
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Cladus: Diapsida
Cladus: Neodiapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha
Subclassis: Lepidosauria
Ordo: Squamata
Subordo: Serpentes
Infraordo: Alethinophidia

Familia: Tropidophiidae
Genus: Tropidophis
Species: Tropidophis grapiuna

Name

  • Tropidophis grapiuna Curcio, Sales Nunes, Suzart Argolo, Skuk & Rodrigues, 2012
Holotype: MNRJ 19593, previous institutional number CZGB 3820 (latter abbreviation refers to Colecão Zoológica Gregório Bondar, Centro de Pesquisas-Comissao Executiva do Plano da Lavoura Cacaueira, Ilhéus, Bahia), not labeled in field, adult female, collected on 15 June 1995, collected by J.R. Martins.
Type locality: "Serra da Pedra Lascada," region of Itajuípe, state of Bahia, Brazil.
Etymology: Name derives from the Brazilian Portuguese grapiúna, as a reference to the inhabitants of the cocoa-producing region of the state of Bahia; from the native language Tupi Guarani (guirá = bird; piúna = dark skin).

References

  • Curcio, Felipe Franco; Pedro M. Sales Nunes; Antônio Jorge Suzart Argolo; Gabriel Skuk; Miguel T., 2012: Taxonomy of the South American Dwarf Boas of the Genus Tropidophis Bibron, 1840, With the Description of Two New Species from the Atlantic Forest (Serpentes: Tropidophiidae). Herpetological monographs, 26(1): 80–121. DOI: 10.1655/HERPMONOGRAPHS-D-10-00008.1.
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