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Morphological variation in Atractustartarus (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) from the Xingu River, east Amazon, Brazil and preliminary phylogenetic relationship in Atractus
Elciomar Araujo De Oliveira1, Emil Jose Hernandez Ruz*1
2. Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Biodiversidade e Conservacao, Faculdade de Ciencias Biologicas, Campus Universitario de Altamira, Universidade Federal do Para, Rua Coronel Jose Porfirio, Sao Sebastiao, Brazil.
Citation : Elciomar Araujo De Oliveira, Emil Jose Hernandez Ruz*, Morphological variation in Atractustartarus (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) from the Xingu River, east Amazon, Brazil and preliminary phylogenetic relationship in Atractus International Journal of Research Studies in Biosciences 2016,4(8) : 1-7.
Currently are recognized 138 species in the genus Atractus, distributed from the eastern region of the Isthmus of Panama to northern Argentina. In recent years, many species have been described based on external morphological differences and hemipenis. Here we described the variation in meristic character in the newly described specie Atractus tartarus from the eastern Brazilian Amazon from the Xingu region. Additionally we present a preliminary hypothesis of relationship with your relatives, based on marker 16SmtDNA.