Variação morfológica de <i>Philodryas patagoniensis</i> (Girard, 1858) (Serpentes, Dipsadidae) no Brasil, com base em estudos das características de folidose, coloração e morfometria

Gouveia, Rafaella Vallim; Novelli, Iara Alves; Vieira, Fabiano Matos; Sousa, Bernadete Maria de

Rafaella Vallim Gouveia ^**Corresponding author: Rafaella Vallim Gouveia, e-mail:rafavallim@gmail.com

Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Comportamento animal Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil

Iara Alves Novelli

Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Departamento de Zoologia, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil

Fabiano Matos Vieira

Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Laboratório Helmintos Parasitos de Vertebrados, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Bernadete Maria de Sousa

Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Departamento de Zoologia, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil

*Corresponding author: Rafaella Vallim Gouveia, e-mail:rafavallim@gmail.com

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Figure 1
(A) Relation between the tail length and number of subcaudal shield of juveniles females and males. (B) Relation between the tail length and number of subcaudal shield of adults females and males. (C) Relation between the tail length and snout-vent length of females and males. (D) Relationship of the snout-vent length, head length and sex of the specimens.

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Figure 2
(A) Pattern of coloration 1 of specimen of Philodryas patagoniensis deposited in the Herpetological Collection of Universidade de Brasília (CHUNB), dorsal view. (CHUNB 3779, Brasília - DF). (B) Pattern of coloration 1 of specimen of Philodryas patagoniensis deposited in the Herpetological Collection of Universidade de Brasília (CHUNB), ventral view. (CHUNB 3779, Brasília - DF). (C) Pattern of coloration 2 of specimen of Philodryas patagoniensis deposited in the Herpetological Collection of Universidade de Brasília (CHUNB), dorsal view. (CHUNB 19337, Brasília - DF). (D) Pattern of coloration 2 of specimen of Philodryas patagoniensis deposited in the Herpetological Collection of Universidade de Brasília (CHUNB), ventral view. (CHUNB 19337, Brasília - DF). (E) Pattern of coloration 1 of specimen of Philodryas patagoniensis deposited in the Herpetological Collection of Museu de Zoologia João Moojen of Universidade Federal de Viçosa (MZUFV), dorsal view. (MZUFV 1369, Tocantins - MG). (F) Pattern of coloration 1 of specimen of Philodryas patagoniensis deposited in the Herpetological Collection of Museu de Zoologia João Moojen of Universidade Federal de Viçosa (MZUFV), ventral view. (MZUFV 1369, Tocantins - MG).

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Figure 3
Distribution of studied specimens of Philodryas patagoniensis in 18 states of Brazil and the Federal District.

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Table 1
Variation of morphometric and pholidosis characteristics measures separated by sex and age range in the specimens of the Philodryas patagoniensis.

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Table 2
Percentage of specimens from different Brazilian states according to the color pattern, sex and sexual maturity in the specimens of the Philodryas patagoniensis.

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Table 3
Total number, means, standard deviation, variation and statistical results between the coloration patterns with variable: number of ventral and subcaudal shields (NVS and NSS), total length (TBL), snout-vent length (SVL), tail length (TL), head length (HL), head width (WH) and inter-ocular width (IOW) of Philodryas patagoniensis. Statistical significance represented by * in the table.

Morphometric	Females				Males
Morphometric	N	Means (cm)	SD	Variation (cm)	N	Means (cm)	SD	Variation (cm)
Juveniles
Ventral	75	185.21	12.69	147-207	58	177.53	7.82	155-194
Subcaudal	74	97.62	12.60	40-117	56	108.38	7.94	73-119
SVL	75	349.03	137.48	144-669	58	325.10	107.94	177 – 517
TL	75	129.35	71.06	57-439	58	128.60	51.26	66-241
Adults
Ventral	134	188.28	8.65	138-210	86	178.06	6.7	157-196
Subcaudal	131	94.97	12.08	40-116	85	106.13	9.24	66-123
SVL	134	923.81	149.1	679-1345	86	688.38	97.2	539-1010
TL	134	298.43	56.24	90-429	86	285.84	42.43	181-396

Localities	Female				Males
	Juveniles		Adults		Juveniles		Adults
	Pattern 1	Pattern 2	Pattern 1	Pattern 2	Pattern 1	Pattern 2	Pattern 1		Pattern 2
Bahia	0%	0%	2%	0%	0%	3%	10%	8%
Distrito Federal	20%	23%	10%	15%	16%	0%	0%	17%
Espírito Santo	0%	0%	4%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
Goiás	7%	0%	5%	9%	2%	18%	6%	8%
Maranhão Mato Grosso	0% 0%	0% 0%	0% 0%	0% 0%	0% 0%	0% 0%	4% 4%	0% 0%
Mato Grosso do Sul	0%	0%	3%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
Minas Gerais	35%	38%	30%	30%	49%	29%	33%	34%
Pará	0%	0%	1%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
Paraíba	0%	0%	0%	3%	2%	13%	0%	0%
Paraná	0%	0%	1%	3%	2%	6%	0%	0%
Pernambuco	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	6%	0%	0%
Rio de Janeiro	17%	15%	16%	9%	10%	3%	16%	8%
Rio Grande do Sul	2%	8%	5%	3%	4%	0%	0%	0%
Roraima	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
Santa Catarina	4%	0%	1%	0%	4%	0%	0%	1%
São Paulo	9%	8%	20%	9%	7%	23%	23%	17%
Sergipe	4%	0%	0%	6%	0%	3%	0%	0%
Tocantins	2%	8%	2%	13%	4%	6%	4%	0%

Scales	Patterns of coloration								Test Wilcoxon
	Parttens 1				Parttens 2				Test Wilcoxon
	N	Means (cm)	SD	Variation (cm)	N	Means (cm)	SD	Variation (cm)	p-value
NVS	256	183.73	9.81	138-210	95	183.05	10.65	154-207	W = 12893.5, p < 0.385
NSS	251	100.25	11.45	40-123	93	102.12	11.95	41-120	W = 10205.5, p < 0.073
TBL	256	907.12	397.57	247-1713	95	807.21	284.64	225-1460	W = 14612, p < 0.004*
SVL	256	670.09	304.86	168-1317	95	587.38	219.36	144-1345.4	W = 14566, p < 0.004*
TL	256	237,03	103.03	60-439	95	219.83	78.35	57-360	W = 14251, p < 0.013*
HL	256	24.45	7.37	11-44.2	94	22.62	5.64	7.7-39.8	W = 14320, p < = 0.006*
WH	256	10.03	3.59	3.3-29.6	95	9.5	3.44	4.4-32.8	W = 13854, p < 0.045*
IOW	256	7.98	2.41	2.2-21.1	95	8.24	7.79	3.1-81.3	W = 14000.5, p < 0.019*

[1] *Corresponding author: Rafaella Vallim Gouveia, e-mail:rafavallim@gmail.com

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