A time relic: a new species of dwarf boa, Tropidophis Bibron, 1840 (Serpentes: Amerophidia), from the Upper Amazon Basin

The amerophidian snake radiation is a Late Cretaceous superfamily that encompasses two families: Aniliidae, pipe snakes, and Tropidophiidae, dwarf boas. We describe a new dwarf boa snake species, from the Tropidophiidae family, from the cloud forest in northeastern Ecuador. Tropidophis cacuangoae sp...

• Autore principale: Ortega Andrade, H. Mauricio (author)
• Altri autori: Bentley, Alex (author), Koch, Claudia (author), Yánez-Muñoz, Mario H. (author)
• Natura: article
• Pubblicazione: 2022
• Soggetti: Taxonomy; Osteology; Systematics; Serpentes
• Accesso online: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.854.2021; http://repositorio.ikiam.edu.ec/jspui/handle/RD_IKIAM/643