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Herpetofauna, Santa Edwiges I and II hydroelectric power plants, state of Goiás, Brazil [PDF]

Check List, 2009
This paper presents a check list of amphibians and reptiles of the area under the influence of Santa Edwiges I and II small hydroelectric power plants on Rio Buritis, state of Goiás, Brazil. The list was the result of faunal rescue operations carried out
Carlos Cintra, Hélder Silva, Nelson da Silva Jr.   +2 more
doaj   +7 more sources

A new species of Caecilia (Gymnophiona, Caeciliidae) from the Magdalena valley region of Colombia [PDF]

ZooKeys, 2019
A new species of the genus Caecilia (Caeciliidae) from the western foothills of the Serranía de los Yariguíes in Colombia is described. Caecilia pulchraserrana sp. nov. is similar to C. degenerata and C.
Andrés R. Acosta-Galvis, Mauricio Torres, Paola Pulido-Santacruz   +2 more
doaj   +4 more sources

First record of Caecilia guntheri Dunn, 1942 (Gymnophiona, Caeciliidae) in Central America [PDF]

Check List, 2021
I report the first encounter in Central America of an individual of Caecilia guntheri Dunn, 1942 (Gymnophiona, Caeciliidae). The individual was observed and collected in a primary evergreen submontane forest in Cerro Pirre, Darien Province, Republic of ...
Luis Carlos Elizondo-Lara
exaly   +4 more sources

Amphibians of the Reserva Ecológica Michelin: a high diversity site in the lowland Atlantic Forest of southern Bahia, Brazil [PDF]

ZooKeys, 2018
An inventory of the amphibians of the Reserva Ecológica Michelin – REM in southern Bahia, Brazil is presented. Sixty-nine species were recorded during a ten-year sampling period.
Caio Vinícius de Mira-Mendes, Danilo Silva Ruas, Renan Manoel de Oliveira, Indira Maria Castro, Iuri Ribeiro Dias, Julio Ernesto Baumgarten, Flora Acuña Juncá, Mirco Solé   +7 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Herpetofauna, Ponte de Pedra Hydroelectric Power Plant, states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil [PDF]

Check List, 2009
This paper presents a check list of amphibians and reptiles of the area under influence of Ponte de Pedra hydroelectricpower plant on Correntes River (municipality of Sonora), between the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso do Sul and MatoGrosso.
Silva Jr., N. J., Cintra, C . E. D., Silva, H. L. R., Costa, M. C., Souza, C. A., Pachêco Jr, A. A., Gonçalves, F. A.   +6 more
doaj   +7 more sources

The efficiency of indicator groups for the conservation of amphibians in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest [PDF]

Ecol Evol, 2014
The adequate selection of indicator groups of biodiversity is an important aspect of the systematic conservation planning. However, these assessments differ in the spatial scale, in the methods used and in the groups considered to accomplish this task ...
Ball I. R., Blackburn D. C., Diniz‐Filho J. A. F., Haddad C. F. B., Haddad C. F. B., Kwet A., Lima J. S., Mace G., Margules C. R., Mittermeier R. A., Sarkar S., Stoms D. M., Tocher M. D., Viana V. M.   +13 more
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Amphibia, Gymnophiona, Caeciliidae, Siphonops hardyi Boulenger, 1888: distribution extension, new state record and notes on meristic data [PDF]

Check List, 2009
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Adriano Oliveira Maciel, Diego J Santana, Emanuel Teixeira Da Silva   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources

Multi-tissue transcriptomes of caecilian amphibians highlight incomplete knowledge of vertebrate gene families [PDF]

DNA Res, 2018
RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) has become one of the most powerful tools to unravel the genomic basis of biological adaptation & diversity. Although challenging, RNA-seq is particularly promising for research on non-model, secretive species that cannot be ...
Albalat, Altschul, Anders, Andrews, Chen, Christopher J Creevey, Clarke, Conesa, da Fonseca, Darrel, David J Gower, Diego San Mauro, Duellman, Eckes, Ekblom, Emms, Etienne Kornobis, Ewing, Finn, Fu, Gabaldón, Gibbons, Gomes, Gower, Gower, Grabherr, Haas, Hammond, Huang, Irisarri, Kamei, Karpinka, Katoh, Koepfli, Kornobis, Kupfer, Langmead, Lazarus, Le, Letunic, Li, Mardis, Marjanović, Mark Wilkinson, María Torres-Sánchez, Meng, Mercer, Mirarab, Moreton, Mueller, Nagalakshmi, Nowoshilow, O'Neil, Ozsolak, Parra, Powell, Prachumwat, Price, Pyron, Roelants, Roelants, Rokas, San Mauro, San Mauro, Sayyari, Schmieder, Sean, Shaffer, Sherratt, Smith, Sun, Szklarczyk, Taylor, Toledo, Wang, Wilkinson, Wilkinson, Zhang   +77 more
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Phylogenetic relationships of African Caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona): insights from mitochondrial rRNA gene sequences [PDF]

, 2003
Africa (excluding the Seychelles) has a diverse caecilian fauna, including the endemic family Scolecomorphidae and six endemic genera of the more cosmopolitan Caeciliidae.
Duellman W.E., Gower D.J., Hillis D.M., Loveridge A., Nussbaum R.A., Nussbaum R.A., Nussbaum R.A., Nussbaum R.A., Parker H.W., Robinson M., Shimodaira H., Swofford D.L., Tamura K., Taylor E.H., Wilkinson M.   +14 more
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A New Species of Skin-Feeding Caecilian and the First Report of Reproductive Mode in Microcaecilia (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Siphonopidae) [PDF]

, 2013
A new species of siphonopid caecilian, Microcaecilia dermatophaga sp. nov., is described based on nine specimens from French Guiana. The new species is the first new caecilian to be described from French Guiana for more than 150 years.
Gower, David J., Sherratt, Emma, Starace, Fausto, Wilkinson, Mark   +3 more
core   +6 more sources