Apostolepis freitasi Lema, 2004b

Passos, Paulo, Rodrigues, Rafael, Pinna, Pedro H., Woitovicz-Cardoso, Manoela, Fernandes, Ronaldo & Caramaschi, Ulisses, 2025, Filling gaps between museum and society: An illustrated catalog of the primary type specimens of Squamata housed in the Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Zootaxa 5698 (1), pp. 1-91 : 32

Apostolepis freitasi Lema, 2004b

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Current status. Apostolepis cearensis Gomes 1915 . Synonymy after Ferrarezzi et al. (2005).

Holotype. Young male, MNRJ 6523 , collected by local people in July 1991 at Tanque do Aragão ( 11°08'S, 42°06'W [approximate]; 715 m asl [approximate]), Municipality of Central, State of Bahia, Brazil.

Remarks. Holotype ( 166 mm SVL). Lema & Renner (2007) cited the specimen MNRJ 6525 as the holotype of Apostolepis freitasi , but MNRJ 6525 is the holotype of Tantilla marcovani Lema, 2004a . No tissue samples available.

Figures

FIGURE 20. Dorsal (A), ventral (B), and lateral (C) views of head and dorsal (D) and ventral (E) views of body of the holotype of Apostolepis freitasi Lema, 2004b [= Apostolepis cearensis Gomes, 1915].