The genus Iphisa Gray, 1851 is composed of only
one species, Iphisa elegans, distributed in the primary
forests of the Amazon Basin of Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia,
Colombia, Brazil, and Guiana Shield – Guyana, Surinam
(Castoe et al., 2004). In Brazil, the species is known from
Amapá, Pará, Amazonas, Acre, Rondônia and Mato
Grosso (Ávila-Pires, 1995; Gainsbury and Colli, 2003;
Rodrigues et al., 2005; Macedo, Bernarde and Abe,
2008; Vitt et al., 2008; Ávila-Pires et al., 2009; França
and Venâncio, 2010; Ávila and Kawashita-Ribeiro,
2011; Marçal, Gomes and Coragem, 2011;
Mendes-Pinto and Souza, 2011; Nunes et al., 2012). However,
there are still several gaps in the known distribution
(Gray, 1851; Dixon, 1974; Duellman, 1978;
Ávila-Pires, 1995; Duellman and Salas, 1991; Hoogmoed and
Ávila-Pires, 1991; Vitt et al., 2008). Iphisa elegans is
a species with diurnal habits, and tends to forage just
below the top layer of leaves covering the forest floor
(Vitt et al., 2008).
In the present note we reported new records of I.
elegans (Figure 1) for the state of Mato Grosso, in Central
Brazil. On 11 October 2011, two adult specimens of I.
elegans were collected in the municipality of Tangará
da Serra, state of Mato Grosso, Brazil (14°51’3.78”S,
57°50’11.74”W). The specimens were captured in
pitfall traps with drift-fences, installed in forested
savanna fragments and riparian forests near the Juba
river (collection permit: SUPES/MT 57/2011). The
collected specimens were euthanized with injectable
anesthetic, fixed in 10% formalin and preserved in
alcohol 70%, tissue samples were taken. The specimens
were deposited at the Zoological Collection of the
Universidade Federal de Goiás (ZUFG), Goiânia,
state of Goiás, Brazil (Specimen number: ZUFG
640-641). The I. elegans specimens from Tangará da Serra
municipality fully agree with the diagnosis of Gray
(1851) and Dixon (1974).
Examination of additional material, previously
deposited in the “Coleção Zoológica de Vertebrados
da Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso” (UFMT;
Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil) (see Appendix),
allowed us to confirm the presence of I. elegans in
ten additional localities in north and southwest from
state Mato Grosso: municipalities of Colniza ( Parque
Estadual Igarapés do Juruena, 8º54’42”S, 59º04’55”W;
Estação Ecológica do Rio Roosevelt, Distrito de
Panelas, 8º54’11”S, 60º49’22”W), Apiacás (Parque
Nacional do Juruena, 9º04’01”S, 57º52’18”W); UHE
Apiacás, 9º12’16”S, 57º05’19”W), Cláudia (Fazenda
Continental, 11º27’47”S, 54º59’25”W), Sapezal (PCH
Cachoeirão, 12º59’48”S, 58º57’29”W), Comodoro
(13º48’56”S, 59º41’11” W), Jauru (PCH Ombreiras,
15º06’59”S, 58º43’59”W), Araputanga (PCH
Ombreiras, 15º08’05”S, 58º56’43”W), and Reserva do
Cabaçal (15º04’48”S, 58º27’57”W) (Figure 2, Table
1).
The records of I. elegans for the Mato Grosso state
extend its geographic distribution in approximately
125 km east and 311 km southeast of their distributions
nearest known (Vale de São Domingos, 15º07’00”
S, 58º58’00” W, and Juara, 10°25’46” S, 57°38’16”
W, respectively). Notwithstanding, the records from
New records and updated distribution map of Iphisa elegans
Gray, 1851 (Reptilia, Gymnophthalmidae)
1 Centro Tecnológico de Engenharia Ltda., Rua 254, 146, Setor Coimbra, 74.535-440, Goiânia, GO, Brazil;
2 Universidade Federal de Goiás, Instituto de Ciências Biológi-cas, Departamento de Ecologia. Rodovia Goiânia-Nerópolis km 5, Campus II, Setor Itatiaia, 74.001-970, Goiânia, GO, Brazil;
3 Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Instituto de Biociências, Coleção de Vertebrados. Avenida Fernando Corrêa da Costa, Coxipó, 78.060-900, Cuiabá, MT, Brazil;
4 Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás - PUC Goiás, Departamento de Biologia. Rua 235, n. 40, Bloco L, Setor Universitário, 74.605-010, Goiânia, GO, Brazil.
*Corresponding author; e-mail: sheilandradevpx@yahoo.com.br
Sheila Pereira de Andrade
1,*, Danusy Lopes Santos
2, Ricardo Alexandre Kawashita-Ribeiro
3Figure 1. Iphisa elegans (ZUFG 640) collected in Tangará da Serra municipality, state of Mato Grosso, Central Brazil. Photo by Sheila P. Andrade.
Figure 2. Distribution map of Iphisa elegans in Brazil. Symbols: Star: Type locality; Closed circles: literature records from Brazil (see Table 1 for localities numbers and literature); Open circles: New records in state of Mato Grosso, Brazil.
of the Mato Grosso state (Jauru, Araputanga, Reserva do
Cabaçal and Tangará da Serra) represent the localities
nearest the Cerrado biome.
In addition, the present records might contribute to
future studies on the biogeography of this group, as it
is inserted in an area tension between biomes
(Amazon-transitional regions are characterized by high species
richness due to the overlap of their distributional ranges,
being composed of inhabitants of adjacent biomes, and
also of atypical species (Vitt, 1991; Silva, 1995; New,
2002; Ratter, Bidgewater and Ribeiro, 2003; Vaz-Silva
and Andrade, 2009; Oliveira et al., 2010).
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Locality Site Geographic Coordinate Literature Cited
Pará state (PA)
Belém 1 01°27’52” S, 48°29’45” W Gray 1851 (Type locality) Portel 2 01º57’36” S, 51º36’55” W Ribeiro-Junior et al. 2011 Oriximiná 3 01º30’00” S, 55º50’00” W Nunes et al. 2012 Juriti 4 02°09’09’’S, 56°05’42’’W Prudente et al. 2013 Santarém 5 04°39’55” S, 55°57’10” W Mendes-Pinto and Souza 2011 Trairão 6 04º34’33” S, 55º24’14” W Mendes-Pinto and Souza 2011 Amapá state (AP)
Macapá 7 0°01’32” N, 51° 4’0” W Lima 2008 Mazagão 8 0º01’00” S, 51º42’00” W Nunes et al. 2012 Serra do Navio 9 0°52’00” N, 52°1’32” W Ávila-Pires 1995 Amazonas state (AM)
Barcelos 10 0°58’31” S, 62°55’28” W Neckel-Oliveira and Gordo 2004 Rio Preto da Eva 11 2º20’30” S, 59º12’52” W Ilha and Dixo, 2010
Manaus 12 3°14’12” S, 59°59’26” W Vitt et al. 2008 Autazes 13 4º09’37” S, 60º07’51” W Nunes et al. 2012 Nova Olinda do Norte 14 4º20’39” S, 58º38’06” W Nunes et al. 2012
Anori 15 4°03’00’’S, 61°40’00’’W Waldez, Menin and Vogt 2013 Borba 16 4º54’63” S, 61º06’46” W Nunes et al. 2012
17 5º3’37” S, 60º17’44” W Ávila-Pires 1995 Manicoré 18 5º24’37” S, 60º43’16” W Nunes et al. 2012 19 6º24’00” S, 60º21’00” W Nunes et al. 2012 Novo Aripuanã
20 7º37’01” S, 60º40’54” W Nunes et al. 2012 Jutaí 21 5º29’16” S, 68º48’23” W Nunes et al. 2012 Tabatinga 22 4º13’48” S, 69º56’12” W Ávila-Pires 1995 Benjamin Constant 23 4º23’00” S, 70º1’53” W Ávila-Pires 1995 Boca do Acre 24 9º0’47” S, 67º10’52” W França and Venâncio 2010 Acre state (AC)
Cruzeiro do Sul 25 07°38’23” S, 72°47’43” W Bernarde et al. 2013 26 7º57’20” S, 72º04’37” W Bernarde et al. 2011 Porto Valter 27 8°16’00” S, 72°47’00” W Ávila-Pires et al. 2009 Rondônia state (RO)
28 9º37’38” S, 65º26’46” W Nunes et al. 2012 29 8°45’57” S, 63°54’7” W Marçal et al. 2011 Porto Velho
30 8º10’37” S, 62º 48’63” W Nunes et al. 2012 Candeias do Jamari 31 8º46’54” S, 63º42’48” W Ávila-Pires 1995 Guajará-Mirim 32 10°19’00” S, 64°33’00” W Ávila-Pires et al. 2009 São Francisco do Guaporé 33 11°51’36” S, 63°43’75” W Ávila-Pires 1995 Ariquemes 34 9°55’37” S, 63°4’7” W Ávila-Pires et al. 2009 Cacaulândia 35 10º19’53” S, 63º05’24” W Nunes et al. 2012
Acknowledgments. We are grateful to Edmar Pereira
Victor-Júnior, Kesley Lemes and Elias Castro Gonzaga for help during the field work. Marcos André de Carvalho for access to material on its care of the UFMT collection. Also thank Darlan Tavares Feitosa for the pre-peer review, critically reading the manuscript, and for confirming the identification of the species. CTE - Centro Tecnológico de Engenharia was the company responsible by biological studies in the basin Juba river in Tangará da Serra
municipality. And R. A. Kawashita-Ribeiro is grateful to the CNPq (Edital MCT/CNPq/MEC/CAPES/FNDCT – Ação Transversal/ FAPs nº 40/2010 – SISBIOTA - Sistema Nacional de Pesquisa em Biodiversidade - BRASIL) (MCT/CNPq/MEC/CAPES/FNDCT – Ação Transversal/FAPs Nº 47/2010 – Sistema Nacional de Pesquisa em Biodiversidade - SISBIOTA BRASIL), the NIEFA – Núcleo Interdisciplinar de Estudos Faunísticos (FAPEMAT processo 447441/2009) and the CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior).
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Locality Site Geographic Coordinate Literature Cited
Espigão do Oeste 36 11°35’00” S, 60°45’00” W Macedo et al. 2008
Pimenta Bueno 37 11°57’9” S, 60°49’9” W Gainsbury and Colli 2003
Vilhena 38 12º 43’00” S, 60º07’00” W Gainsbury and Colli 2003
Mato Grosso state (MT)
39 8º54’11” S, 60º49’22” W New record Colniza 40 8º54’42” S, 59º04’55” W New record 41 9º04’01” S, 57º52’18” W New record 42 9º34’03” S, 57º21’04” W Nunes et al. 2012 Apiacás 43 9º12’16” S, 57º05’19” W New record
Aripuanã 44 9°16’24” S, 60°37’12” W Rodrigues et al. 2005
Cotriguaçu 45 9º50’10” S, 58º15’09” W Kawashita-Ribeiro et al. 2011
Nova Bandeirantes 46 10º20’48” S, 57º41’21” W Ávila and Kawashita-Ribeiro 2011
Juara 47 10°25’46” S, 57°38’16” W Ávila and Kawashita-Ribeiro 2011
Juruena 48 10º19’53” S, 58º21’32” W Nunes et al. 2012
Cláudia 49 11º27’47”S, 54º59’25” W New record
Sapezal 50 12º59’48” S, 58º57’29” W New record
Comodoro 51 13º48’56” S, 59º41’11” W New record
Vale de São Domingos 52 15º07’00” S, 58º58’00” W Nunes et al. 2012
Jauru 53 15º06’59” S, 58º43’59” W New record
Araputanga 54 15º08’05” S, 58º56’43” W New record
Reserva do Cabaçal 55 15º04’48” S, 58º27’57” W New record
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