A new species of Amphisbaena Linnaeus, 1758 (Amphisbaenia, Amphisbaenidae), from Atlantic Forest, Bahia State, Brazil

A new species of Amphisbaena is described from the coastal Atlantic Forest of southern Bahia, Brazil. The new species is distinguished by the presence of four precloacal pores, 186–189 body annuli, 21–23 caudal annuli, autotomy site at the 9th–10th caudal annuli, 10–12 dorsal and 14–16 ventral segments, and by a distinctive pattern of scattered whitish marks on the tail. A molecular phylogeny recovered the new species as part of a clade comprising A. amethysta, A. bahiana, A. caetitensis, A. longinqua, A. mongoyo, and A. uroxena, all species from the state of Bahia and with which it shares osteological characteristics.