A new species of blunt-headed vine snake (Colubridae, Imantodes) from the Chocó region of Ecuador

Abstract. We describe a new species of Imantodes from the Chocó region of northwestern Ecuador. The new species differs most significantly from all other congeners in lacking a loreal scale. We analyze the phylogenetic relationships among species of Imantodes based on two mitochondrial genes, and po...

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Autores principales: Torres-Carvajal, Omar, Yánez-Muñoz, Mario H., Quirola, Diego, Eric N. Smith, Almendáriz, Ana
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Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3520105/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23275746
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.244.3950
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author Torres-Carvajal, Omar
Yánez-Muñoz, Mario H.
Quirola, Diego
Eric N. Smith,
Almendáriz, Ana
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Yánez-Muñoz, Mario H.
Quirola, Diego
Eric N. Smith,
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description Abstract. We describe a new species of Imantodes from the Chocó region of northwestern Ecuador. The new species differs most significantly from all other congeners in lacking a loreal scale. We analyze the phylogenetic relationships among species of Imantodes based on two mitochondrial genes, and postulate that the new species and Imantodes lentiferus are sister taxa. A key to the species of Imantodes from Ecuador is presented.
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spelling pubmed-35201052012-12-28 A new species of blunt-headed vine snake (Colubridae, Imantodes) from the Chocó region of Ecuador Torres-Carvajal, Omar Yánez-Muñoz, Mario H. Quirola, Diego Eric N. Smith, Almendáriz, Ana Zookeys Article Abstract. We describe a new species of Imantodes from the Chocó region of northwestern Ecuador. The new species differs most significantly from all other congeners in lacking a loreal scale. We analyze the phylogenetic relationships among species of Imantodes based on two mitochondrial genes, and postulate that the new species and Imantodes lentiferus are sister taxa. A key to the species of Imantodes from Ecuador is presented. Pensoft Publishers 2012-11-27 /pmc/articles/PMC3520105/ /pubmed/23275746 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.244.3950 Text en Omar Torres-Carvajal, Mario H. Yánez-Muñoz, Diego Quirola, Eric N. Smith, Ana Almendáriz http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 (CC-BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Article
Torres-Carvajal, Omar
Yánez-Muñoz, Mario H.
Quirola, Diego
Eric N. Smith,
Almendáriz, Ana
A new species of blunt-headed vine snake (Colubridae, Imantodes) from the Chocó region of Ecuador
title A new species of blunt-headed vine snake (Colubridae, Imantodes) from the Chocó region of Ecuador
title_full A new species of blunt-headed vine snake (Colubridae, Imantodes) from the Chocó region of Ecuador
title_fullStr A new species of blunt-headed vine snake (Colubridae, Imantodes) from the Chocó region of Ecuador
title_full_unstemmed A new species of blunt-headed vine snake (Colubridae, Imantodes) from the Chocó region of Ecuador
title_short A new species of blunt-headed vine snake (Colubridae, Imantodes) from the Chocó region of Ecuador
title_sort new species of blunt-headed vine snake (colubridae, imantodes) from the chocó region of ecuador
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3520105/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23275746
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.244.3950
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