Apostolepis nigroterminata Boulenger, 1896

Llanqui, Irbin B., Y. Salas, Cinthya & Oblitas, Melissa P., 2019, A preliminary checklist of amphibians and reptiles from the vicinity of La Nube Biological Station, Bahuaja-Sonene National Park, Peru, Check List 15 (5), pp. 773-796 : 787-788

Apostolepis nigroterminata Boulenger, 1896

Figure 6C–E

Material examined. MUSA 4106; PT2, 24.IX.2013.

Identification. A small snake, SVL 199–301 mm. It can be identified by having snout blunt, typically with 6 supralabials; nasal contacting preoculars; temporals absent; ventrals 200–231, subcaudals 23–33. Dorsum pale red with a dark brown vertebral line and lateral streaks. Head dark brown with a cream spot on snout and fourth supralabial. A white nuchal collar 1–3 dorsals long; terminal scales on tail black with a cream tip. Venter yellow. There are no similar species in adjacent localities ( Boulenger 1896, Harvey 1999, de Lema and Renner 2016). Morphometrics and pholidosis of our collected specimen are in Table 6.

Distribution. Apostolepis nigroterminata is distributed in Amazonia in Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru from 150 to 760 m a.s.l. ( Harvey 1999, de Lema 2001, Wallach et al. 2014, de Lema and Renner 2016, F. M. dos Santos et al. 2018, Uetz and Hošek 2019).

Remarks. We collected one individual of A. nigroterminata , in a pitfall trap. The specimen conforms to the description in Harvey (1999) ( Table 6). It is a new record for this sector of the Távara River, Puno Region and is the most southern record in Peru, ~ 87 km south of the previous record ( Harvey 1999). Duellman (2005) and Doan and Arizabal (2002) did not report A. nigroterminata from the Madre de Dios Region, although it could occur there.