Trilepida anthracina

Salazar-Valenzuela, David, Martins, Angele, Amador-Oyola, Luis & Torres-Carvajal, Omar, 2015, A new species and country record of threadsnakes (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae: Epictinae) from northern Ecuador, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 89) 8 (1), pp. 107-120 : 119-120

Trilepida anthracina (n = 1).— ECUADOR: Provincia Zamora Chinchipe: 6.5 km SE of Tundayme, 1,300–1,500 m, QCAZ 7396 .

Trilepida guayaquilensis (n = 1).— ECUADOR: Provincia Guayas: Guayaquil , ZMB 4508 (holotype) (photographs examined) .

Trilepida macrolepis (n = 2).— ECUADOR: Provincia Esmeraldas: Alto Tambo, Otokiki Reserve , 620 m, QCAZ 10247 ; Durango , 243 m, DHMECN 11400 .

David Salazar-Valenzuela graduated in Biological Sciences from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE) in 2007. He is currently a researcher of the Museo de Zoología QCAZ of PUCE and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology at The Ohio State University. His doctoral dissertation is focused on systematics, historical demography, and venom variation of the Bothrops asper species complex using genomic and proteomic approaches. So far David has published six scientific papers on taxonomy, ecology, and toxinology of Ecuadorian amphibians and reptiles.

Angele Martins received her Master’s degree in 2012 from Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro /UFRJ– Brazil, and is now a Ph.D. student in Zoology at this same institution. She has dedicated her research efforts in the last six years to the study of snake morphology and herpetofauna from the Atlantic Forest in Brazil. In the last three years, she has focused on the study of the comparative anatomy of scolecophidians, with significant interest on threadsnakes ( Leptotyphlopidae ), which lead her to investigate the comparative anatomy of this group for her Ph.D. thesis.

Luis Amador-Oyola graduated in Biological Sciences from the University of Guayaquil (UG) in 2005. He is currently completing his Master’s thesis on the biogeography and systematics of amphibians from the Chongón Colonche mountains (equatorial pacific) at the same university. His work has focused on the distribution and biodiversity of amphibians and reptiles of areas on the coast of Ecuador, however Luis is interested in future work on evolution and biogeography of amphibians. This manuscript represents the first description of a species of herpetofauna coauthored by Luis; other works are in preparation.

Omar Torres-Carvajal graduated in Biological Sciences from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador ( PUCE) in 1998, and in 2001 received a Master’s degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Kansas under the supervision of Dr. Linda Trueb. In 2005 he received a Ph.D. degree from the same institution with the thesis entitled “Phylogenetic systematics of South American lizards of the genus Stenocercus ( Squamata: Iguania).” Between 2006–2008 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, USA, working under the supervision of Dr. Kevin de Queiroz. He is currently Curator of Reptiles at the Zoology Museum QCAZ of PUCE and an Associate Professor at the Department of Biology in the same institution. He has published more than 30 scientific papers on taxonomy, systematics, and biogeography of South American reptiles, with emphasis on lizards. He is mainly interested in the theory and practice of phylogenetic systematics, particularly as they relate to the evolutionary biology of lizards .

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Citations

ICZN. 2012.Amendment of Articles 8,9,10,21 and 78 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature to expand and refine methods of publication. Zootaxa 3450: 1–7.

Polaszek A et al. 2005a. Commentary:A universal register for animal names. Nature 437: 477.

Polaszek A et al. 2005b. ZooBank: The open-access register for zoological taxonomy:Technical Discussion Paper. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 62(4): 210–220.