Tainá Figueras Dorado-Rodrigues1,*, Christine Strüssmann2, Francco Antonio Neri de Souza e Lima3, Rafael Martins Valadão4 and Tamí Mott5 |
Amphisbaena brasiliana is a Brazilian endemic amphisbaenid (Bérnils and Costa, 2012) described after a single specimen obtained in the municipality of Santarém, state of Pará (Gray, 1865: 448). Besides the type locality and vicinities (Gans, 1971; Spencer, 2012), the species is known from other three municipalities in the same state: Belém (Gans, 1971), Aveiro (Rio Cupari; Strauch, 1883) and Parauapebas (“Serra dos Carajás”; Cunha et al., 1985). Two vouchered but imprecise additional records from localities along the “rio Amazonas” (Amazon River), and one undocumented record for Paraíba do Norte, state of Paraíba, were mentioned by Gans (1971), but this latter record was considered by that author as “questionable”. The species has also been found in Guarantã do Norte, extreme north of the state of Mato Grosso (Mott and Vieites, 2009; Pinna et al., 2010), the southernmost record until now |