Ana Lúcia da Costa Prudente (born 5 May 1968), also cited as Ana L. C. Prudente or A. L. C. Prudente, is a Brazilian herpetologist whose research focuses primarily on snakes.
Biography
Prudente completed an internship in the municipal environmental education department from March to September 1986. In the same year, she enrolled at the Federal University of Uberlândia, where she received a degree in biological sciences in 1989. In 1990, she specialized in systematic zoology. In 1993, under the supervision of Thales de Lema, she completed a master's degree in ecology and evolution at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, with the thesis Revisão Sistemática de Gomesophis brasiliensis com algumas considerções sobre a tribo Tachymenini (Serpentes, Colubridae). From 1995 to 1998, she was a visiting researcher at the Museu de História Natural Capão da Imbuia, where she assisted with the curation of the herpetological collection. In 1998, again under de Lema's supervision, she received a doctorate in zoology from the Federal University of Paraná for the dissertation Revisão, Filogenia e Alimentação de Siphlophis Fitzinger, 1843 (Serpentes, Colubridae, Xenodontinae). From March to September 1998, she taught biology at the Centro de Ensino Supletivo do Estado do Paraná. From 1998 to 2000, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of São Paulo, where she carried out a project on the phylogenetic systematics of the subfamily Dipsadinae. Since 2000, she has been a researcher and curator in the herpetology department of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG), whose snake collection contains approximately 25,500 specimens.
Since 2001, Prudente has been a supervising professor in the graduate program in zoology (Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, PPGZOOL) at the Federal University of Pará and in the Biodiversity and Evolution program (PPGBE) at MPEG. From 2003 to 2006, she participated in a project at the University of São Paulo on the evolution of the reptile fauna of southeastern Brazil from the Late Cretaceous to the present, focusing on paleontology, phylogeny and biogeography. From 2015 to 2018, she headed the Zoology Coordination at MPEG, and from 2016 to 2018 she was deputy coordinator for research and postgraduate studies there.
Prudente's research focuses on the biogeography of reptiles, particularly snakes, the biological inventory of the herpetofauna of the Amazon basin, morphology, systematics, taxonomy and biology.
In 2022, she was a co-author of the book Guia de cobras da região de Manaus – Amazônia Central.
Prudente is the mother of two children.
Taxa described
Amerotyphlops arenensis — Graboski, Pereira Filho, Silva, Prudente & Zaher, 2015 Amerotyphlops caetanoi — Graboski, Arredondo, Grazziotin, Guerra-Fuentes, Pereira Filho, Silva, Prudente, Pinto, Rodrigues, Bonatto & Zaher, 2022 Amerotyphlops illusorium — Graboski, Arredondo, Grazziotin, Guerra-Fuentes, Pereira Filho, Silva, Prudente, Pinto, Rodrigues, Bonatto & Zaher, 2022 Amerotyphlops martis — Graboski, Arredondo, Grazziotin, Guerra-Fuentes, Pereira Filho, Silva, Prudente, Pinto, Rodrigues, Bonatto & Zaher, 2022 Amerotyphlops montanum — Graboski, Arredondo, Grazziotin, Guerra-Fuentes, Pereira Filho, Silva, Prudente, Pinto, Rodrigues, Bonatto & Zaher, 2022 Atractus aboiporu — Melo-Sampaio, Passos, Fouquet, Prudente & Torres-Carvajal, 2019 Atractus akerios — Melo-Sampaio, Passos, Prudente, Venegas & Torres-Carvajal, 2021 Atractus boimirim — Passos, Prudente & Lynch, 2016 Atractus caxiuana — Prudente & Santos-Costa, 2006 Atractus dapsilis — Melo-Sampaio, Passos, Fouquet, Prudente & Torres-Carvajal, 2019 Atractus hoogmoedi — Prudente & Passos, 2010 Atractus natans — Hoogmoed & Prudente, 2003 Atractus nawa — Melo-Sampaio, Passos, Prudente, Venegas & Torres-Carvajal, 2021 Atractus pachacamac — Melo-Sampaio, Passos, Prudente, Venegas & Torres-Carvajal, 2021 Atractus surucucu — Prudente, 2008 Atractus tartarus — Passos, Prudente & J. D. Lynch, 2016 Atractus trefauti — Melo-Sampaio, Passos, Fouquet, Prudente & Torres-Carvajal, 2019 Atractus ukupacha — Melo-Sampaio, Passos, Prudente, Venegas & Torres-Carvajal, 2021 Erythrolamprus rochai — Ascenso, Costa & Prudente, 2019 Eutrachelophis papilio — Zaher & Prudente, 2019 Imantodes guane — Missassi & Prudente, 2015 Leptodeira tarairiu — Costa, Graboski, Grazziotin, Zaher, Rodrigues & Prudente, 2022 Micrurus anibal — Nascimento, Graboski, Silva-Jr. & Prudente, 2024 Micrurus bonita — Nascimento, Graboski, Silva-Jr. & Prudente, 2024 Micrurus janisrozei — Nascimento, Graboski, Silva-Jr. & Prudente, 2024 Micrurus potyguara — Pires, Da Silva Jr., Feitosa, Prudente, Pereira-Filho & Zaher, 2014 Micrurus tikuna — Feitosa, Da Silva Jr., Pires, Zaher & Prudente, 2015 Pseudoboa serrana — Morato, Moura-Leite, Prudente & Bérnils, 1995 Pseudogonatodes quihuai — Rojas-Runjaic, Koch, Castroviejo-Fisher & Prudente, 2024
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