Tropidophis grapiuna

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anilioidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Infraordo: Alethinophidia Superfamilia: Anilioidea

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.