出版社：Faculdade de Biociências, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
摘要：ABSTRACTContribution to the knowledge of Apostolepis flavotorquata (Serpentes, Elapomorphinae)The examination of the holotype, and more than one hundred specimens of Apostolepis flavotorquata(Duméril, Bibron and Duméril, 1854), furnish many data on this bad knowledge species, and allows toredescribe it, with the description of the hemipenis. It is the type species of the genus, attaining almostone meter of length. It presents the pattern of coloration own from Cerrado domain species (uniformlyred), sometimes with a dark vertebral stripe; the trunk is thick, head short and broad, and round snoutnot projecting beyond the jaws; the tail is a few slender. This species is closed with the nigrolineatagroup. It occurs at Central Brazil
关键词：Apostolepis flavotorquata, morphology, hemipenis, taxonomy, Central Brazil
