TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ortega-Andrade, H. Mauricio
A1  - Bentley, Alexander
A1  - Koch, Claudia
A1  - Yánez-Muñoz, Mario H.
A1  - Entiauspe-Neto, Omar Machado
T1  - A time relic: a new species of dwarf boa, Tropidophis Bibron, 1840 (Serpentes: Amerophidia), from the Upper Amazon Basin
T2  - European journal of taxonomy
N2  - The amerophidian snake radiation is a Late Cretaceous superfamily that encompasses two families: Aniliidae, pipe snakes, and Tropidophiidae, dwarf boas. We describe a new dwarf boa snake species, from the Tropidophiidae family, from the cloud forest in northeastern Ecuador. Tropidophis cacuangoae sp. nov. can be diagnosed from its congeners based on external and osteological morphology. The new species inhabits eastern tropical piedmont and lower evergreen montane forests, in the Amazon Tropical Rainforest biome, and is likely to be an Ecuadorian endemic. We also discuss the relationships of the new species with South American tropidophiids and provide a key to the identification of mainland South American dwarf boas.
T3  - European journal of taxonomy  : EJT - 854 
KW  - taxonomy
KW  - systematics,
KW  - osteology
KW  - Serpentes
Y1  - 2022
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/68870
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-688702
SN  - 2118-9773
VL  - 2022
IS  - 854
SP  - 1
EP  - 107
PB  - Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
CY  - Paris
ER  -