Herpetology Notes, volume 10: 193-195 (2017) (published online on 25 April 2017)

New record and revised distribution map of Pseudoboa martinsi Zaher et al., 2008 (Serpentes: : ) in the state of Amazonas, Brazil

Luciana Fraz��1,2,*, Juliana Campos2, M. Ermelinda Oliveira3, Vinícius Tadeu de Carvalho2 and Tomas Hrbek2

The Pseudoboa Schneider, 1801 is monophyletic white nuchal collar as a juvenile that becomes reddish (Zaher 1994, Zaher et al. 2009) comprising six nominal brown in adults, a black vertebral stripe that extends : Pseudoboa coronata Schneider, 1801; from the head to the tail, lateral and ventral body P. haasi (Boettger, 1905); P. martinsi Zaher, Oliveira evenly immaculate (Zaher et al., 2008). All available & Franco, 2008; P. neuwiedii (Duméril, Bibron & records from this species were provided in the species Duméril, 1854); P. nigra (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, description and no additional reports were published 1854); and P. serrana Morato, Moura-Leite, Prudente & since then. These records include the states of Rondônia Bérnils, 1995. These are distributed throughout (municipalities Itapoã d’Oeste and Guajará-Mirim), Central and South America, from Panama to Argentina, Pará (municipality Oriximiná), Amazonas (Iauareté, including Trinidad and Tobago (Bailey, 1940, 1970; Uetz municipality São Gabriel da Cachoeira), Parque Nacional & Etzold, 1996). Three species occur in the Amazonian do Jaú (municipality Novo Airão), km 4 of BR-174 region: P. coronata, P. neuwiedii, and P. martinsi. All (municipality Manaus); Reserva Ducke (municipality species of this genus have predominantly nocturnal and Manaus) and BR-174 at the border between the states terrestrial habits and are found in disturbed areas (P. of Roraima and Amazonas. Additionally, Zaher et al. coronata), pristine areas or in both (P. neuwiedii and P. (2008) report the occurrence of two specimens (IBSP martinsi) (Zaher, 1994; Gaiarsa et al., 2013). 31981, MPEG 15) of P. martinsi from the locality of Pseudoboa martinsi was described from the Fazenda Iauareté, Rio Uaupés, at the Colombia-Brazil border; Porto Alegre, municipality of Manaus, Amazonas state, however, in Zaher et al. (2008) the collecting localities Brazil (-2.416667S, -59.716667W). This species has a

1 Programa de P�s-Gradua�ão em Biodiversidade e Biotecnologia da Amazônia Legal – BIONORTE, Manaus, AM, Brazil. 2 Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM), Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Biologia, Laboratório de Evolução e Genética , Av. General Rodrigo Octávio Jordão Ramos, 3000, CEP 69077-000, Manaus, AM, Brazil. 3 Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM), Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Parasitologia, Laboratório de Parasitologia Animal, Av. General Rodrigo Octávio Jordão Ramos, 3000, CEP 69077-000, Manaus, AM, Figure 1. Juvenile male of Pseudoboa martinsi, from Daraá Brazil. River near its confluence with the Negro River, municipality * Corresponding author e-mail: [email protected] Santa Isabel do Rio Negro, Amazonas, Brazil. 194 Luciana Luiz et al. of these two specimens were plotted on the map as two Acknowledgements. We thank Izeni Pires Farias Universidade different localities, one of them approximately 250 km Federal do Amazonas for logistic support; We are also grateful southeast of Iauareté. to Hussam Zaher for his comments and suggestions on this manuscript pre-peer review; Júlio do Vale, Alexandre Almeida, In this note we present a revised distribution map Roberto Zamora and Deyla Oliveira for field assistance; Project based on Zaher et al. (2008) and a new record of a SISBIOTA BioPHAM/CNPq (N° 563348/2010) for financial male specimen of Pseudoboa martinsi (INPA-H 31580, support and ICMBio/IBAMA and Amazonas State conservation snout-vent length 345 mm; tail length 107 mm; mass offices for collecting permits. The authors were supported by in life 18 g – Figure 1). The specimen was collected fellowships from CNPq, CAPES and FAPEAM. (IBAMA collecting permit 41180-1) on 10 April, 2012 in an area of non-flooded (terra firme) forest, using a References tarpaulin drift fence, with eight 100 L buckets each at Bailey, J.R. (1940): Relationships and distributions of the snakes 10 m intervals (Cechin and Martins, 2000), near the allied to the genus Pseudoboa. Unpublished PhD thesis, confluence of the Daraá River with the Negro River, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. municipality Santa Isabel do Rio Negro, state of Bailey, J.R. (1970): Pseudoboa. In: Catalogue of the Neotropical Amazonas, Brazil (-0.587639S, -64.891778W). The : Part 1, Snakes. p. 25-30. Peters, J.A., Orejas- collection site is located approximately 612 km west Miranda, B., Eds., Washington, Bulletin of the United States (straight line) from the type locality of Fazenda Porto National Museum 297. Cechin, S. Z., Martins, M. (2000). �ficiência de armadilhas de Alegre in Amazonas state, Brazil and 378 km from the queda (pitfall traps) em amostragens de anfíbios e répteis no closest locality record. The specimen was deposited Brasil. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 17: 729 740. in the Collection of Amphibians and of the Gaiarsa, M. P., Alencar, L. R. V., Martins, M. (2013). �atural Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia - INPA, history of pseudoboine snakes. �apéis Avulsos de Zoologia 53: Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil and fills a distributional gap 261-283. of approximately 850 km for this species known from Uetz, P., Etzold, T. (1996). The EMBL/EBI Database. just 12 localities (Figure 2). Herpetological Review 27 (4): 174-175. Zaher, H. (1994). Phylogénie des Pseudoboini et évolution des sud-américains (Serpentes, Colubridae).

Figure 2. Revised and updated distribution map of Pseudoboa martinsi in the Amazon basin. Red star (type locality), blue circles (paratypes) and yellow diamond (collected specimen in present study). New record and revised distribution map of Pseudoboa martinsi in Brazil 195

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Accepted by Graham Walters