The good, the bad and the boa: An unexpected new species of a true boa revealed by morphological and molecular evidence

• Rodrigo Castellari Gonzalez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rodrigo Castellari Gonzalez, Lorena Corina Bezerra de Lima, Paulo Passos, Maria José J. Silva

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rodcastgon@gmail.com

  Affiliations Museu de História Natural do Ceará Prof. Dias da Rocha, Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Pacoti, Ceará, Brazil, Departamento de Vertebrados, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7164-8363

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• Lorena Corina Bezerra de Lima ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rodrigo Castellari Gonzalez, Lorena Corina Bezerra de Lima, Paulo Passos, Maria José J. Silva

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratório de Ecologia e Evolução, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Paulo Passos ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rodrigo Castellari Gonzalez, Lorena Corina Bezerra de Lima, Paulo Passos, Maria José J. Silva

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ PP and MJJS are senior author on this work.

  Affiliation Departamento de Vertebrados, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1775-0970

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• Maria José J. Silva

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rodrigo Castellari Gonzalez, Lorena Corina Bezerra de Lima, Paulo Passos, Maria José J. Silva

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ PP and MJJS are senior author on this work.

  Affiliation Laboratório de Ecologia e Evolução, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil

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