A century of waiting: description of a new Epictia Gray, 1845 (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae) based on specimens housed for more than 100 years in the collection of the Natural History Museum Vienna (NMW)

We describe a new species of Epictia based on eight specimens from Nicaragua collected and housed in the collection of the Natural History Museum Vienna for more than a century. The species differs from the congeners by the combination of external morphological characters: midtail scale rows 10; sup...

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Main Authors: Claudia Koch, Angele Martins, Silke Schweiger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2019-08-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/7411.pdf