Albuquerque, S.

Miranda, D. B.

Venâncio, N. M.

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  Journal of Species Lists and Distribution  ISSN 1809-127X (online edition) www.checklist.org.br © 2009 Check List and Authors   NOTES ON GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION   Check List, Campinas, 5(4): 917–918, December, 2009.  917  Reptilia, Squamata, Colubridae, Rhinobothryum lentiginosum (Scopoli 1785):  First record from state of Acre, Brazil    Daniele Bazzo Miranda, Saymon de Albuquerque,* and Nathocley Mendes Venâncio  1 Universidade Federal do Acre. CEP 69915-900. Rio Branco, AC, Brazil.  * Corresponding author. E-mail: albuquerquesaymon@gmail.com   The snake genus Rhinobothryum Wagler, 1830 includes two species: R. bovalli Andersson 1916, distributed in Central America, northeastern Colombia and Ecuador; and R. lentigimosum (Scopoli 1785), in Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Guiana, Suriname, French Guiana, Paraguay and Brazil (Cunha and Nascimento 1993). In Brazil   R. lentiginosum was recorded in the Amazon, for the states of Rondônia, Pará, Amapá, Amazonas and Mato Grosso (Cunha and Nascimento 1993; Martins and Oliveira 1998; Frota et al. 2005; Bernarde and Abe 2006; França et. al. 2006).  Rhinobothryum lentiginosum was already found in forested areas, second growth forests, pastures (Cunha and Nascimento 1993; Martins and  Oliveira 1998; Bernarde and Abe 2006) and also in open Amazonian savannahs (França et. al. 2006). It is a nocturnal snake with terrestrial habits, that preys mainly upon lizards (Cunha and Nascimento 1993; Martins and Oliveira 1998; Bernarde and Abe 2006).  On 20 June 2008, during a rapid assessment   of the herpetofauna in a forest area under a reduced-impact management, an individual of Rhinobothryum lentiginosum (figure 1) was recorded on a dirt road at 21:00 h at São Jorge I Farm (09°26'11" S, 68°37'19" W), municipality of Sena Madureira, state of Acre, The specimen was photographed and then released. This is the first record of this species for the state of Acre, Brazil.   Figure 1. Specimen of Rhinobothryum lentiginosum found in municipality of Sena Madureira, state of Acre, Brazil. Photo by D. B. Miranda.  Notes on Geographic Distribution  Check List, Campinas, 5(4): 917–918, December, 2009.  918Acknowledgments: We thank Paulo Sérgio Bernarde for valuable suggestion on the manuscript,  WWF-Brazil for the logistic support during the rapid assessment of herpetofauna in the area of sustainable forest management, and Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Manejo de Recursos Naturais – Unversidade Federal do Acre-UFAC.  ————————————————  Literature cited Bernarde, P.S. and A.S. Abe. 2006. A snake community at Espigão do Oeste, Rondônia, southwestern Amazon, Brazil. South American Journal of Herpetology 1(2): 102-113. Cunha, O.R. and F.P. Nascimento. 1993. Ofídios da Amazônia. As cobras da região Leste do Pará. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi série Zoologia 9: 1-191. França, F.G.R., D.O. Mesquita and G.R. Colli. 2006. A checklist of snakes from Amazonian Savannas in Brazil, housed in the Coleção Herpetológica da Universidade de Brasília, with new distribution records. Occasional Papers  Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History 17: 1-13. Frota, J.G., A.P. Santos-Jr., H.M. Chalkidis and A.G. Guedes. 2005. As serpentes da região do baixo Rio Amazonas, oeste do Estado do Pará, Brasil (Squamata). Biociências 13 (2): 211-220.  Martins, M. and M.E. Oliveira. 1998. Natural history of snakes in forests of the Manaus region, Central Amazonia, Brazil. Herpetological Natural History 6: 78-150.  Received: March 2009 Revised: November 2009 Accepted: December 2009 Published online: December 2009 Editorial responsibility: Alejandro R. Giraudo  

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