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Colección Mastozoológica Universidad de Nariño (Colección Zoológica P.S.O-CZ 041) [PDF]

Mammalogy Notes, 2020
La Colección Mastozoológica de la Universidad de Nariño (Colección Zoológica P.S.O-CZ) conserva 926 especímenes de mamíferos pertenecientes a 10 órdenes, 25 familias (23 nativas y dos exóticas), 75 géneros (73 nativos y dos exóticos) y 119 especies ...
Jhon Jairo Calderón-Leytón, Johana Arévalo-Cortés, Christian Cabrera-Ojeda, Osvaldo Arcos, Elkin A. Noguera-Urbano   +4 more
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Annotated checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Zacatecas, Mexico [PDF]

ZooKeys
Zacatecas is in the north-central region of Mexico. Its territorial extension, as well as the unique combination of climatic and physiographic characteristics, favor high biological diversity.
José Jesús Sigala-Rodríguez, Rubén Alonso Carbajal-Márquez, Alondra Encarnación-Luévano, Jesús Lenin Lara-Galván, Jorge Alberto Bañuelos-Alamillo, Eric Centenero-Alcalá, Iván Trinidad Ahumada-Carrillo, Fahd Henrry Carmona-Torres   +7 more
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Evaluating Potential Distribution and Niche Divergence among Populations of the World’s Largest Living Damselfly, Megaloprepus caerulatus (Drury, 1782)

Diversity, 2022
Megaloprepus caerulatus is a Neotropical species with a highly specialised niche, found from Mexico to Bolivia, primarily in mature tropical forests lower than 1500 masl. It is also the damselfly with the largest wingspan in the world.
Alondra Encarnación-Luévano, Jaime Antonio Escoto-Moreno, Giovanna Villalobos-Jiménez   +2 more
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Natural History and Morphology of Crotalus ehecatl (Serpentes: Viperidae)

Diversity, 2022
The Tehuantepec Isthmus rattlesnake (Crotalus ehecatl) is a poorly known species endemic to Mexico. We describe its diet, morphological variation, life history traits and activity patterns based on data from field encounters, museum specimens, and ...
Rubén Alonso Carbajal-Márquez, José Jesús Sigala-Rodríguez, Jorge Arturo Hidalgo-García, Juan José Ayala-Rodríguez, José Rogelio Cedeño-Vázquez   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Géneros de ninfas del orden Ephemeroptera (Insecta) del departamento del Tolima, Colombia: listado preliminar

Biota Colombiana, 2010
Se presenta el listado preliminar de géneros del orden Ephemeroptera en el departamento del Tolima, basado en ninfas. Estos resultados provienen del estudio de diez municipios del departamento (Cajamarca, Chaparral, Coello, Cunday, Dolores, Ibagué, Prado,
Carolina Gutiérrez, Gladys Reinoso-Flórez   +1 more
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Structure and evolution of the sexually dimorphic integumentary swelling on the hands of dendrobatid poison frogs and their relatives (Amphibia: Anura: Dendrobatoidea)

Journal of Anatomy, Volume 240, Issue 3, Page 447-465, March 2022., 2022
The hands of adult males of many dendrobatid poison frogs and their relatives possess one or two of four types of specialized mucous glands that presumably secrete pheromones delivered to females during cephalic amplexus. The discovery of these glands adds a new dimension to studies of poison frog reproductive biology, which have investigated acoustic,
Isabela Rodrigues de Souza Cavalcanti, María Celeste Luna, Julián Faivovich, Taran Grant   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lista actualizada de los anfibios del departamento del Tolima, Colombia

Biota Colombiana, 2018
Presentamos la lista de los anfibios del departamento del Tolima, Colombia, a partir de ejemplares depositados en la colección zoológica de la Universidad del Tolima y otras colecciones del país.
Sigifredo Clavijo-Garzón, Johan A. Romero-García, María Paula Enciso-Calle, Andrés Viuche-Lozano, James Herrán-Medina, Mauricio A. Vejarano-Delgado, Manuel H. Bernal   +6 more
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Wildlife collection for scientific purposes

Conservation Biology, Volume 35, Issue 1, Page 5-11, February 2021., 2021
Abstract Illegal transfer of wildlife has 2 main purposes: trade and scientific research. Trade is the most common, whereas scientific research is much less common and unprofitable, yet still important. Biopiracy in science is often neglected despite that many researchers encounter it during their careers.
Caroline Fukushima, Rick West, Thomas Pape, Lyubomir Penev, Leif Schulman, Pedro Cardoso   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Applying the zoo model to conservation of threatened exceptional plant species

Conservation Biology, Volume 34, Issue 6, Page 1416-1425, December 2020., 2020
Abstract Maintaining a living plant collection is the most common method of ex situ conservation for plant species that cannot be seed banked (i.e., exceptional species). Viability of living collections, and their value for future conservation efforts, can be limited without coordinated efforts to track and manage individuals across institutions. Using
Jordan Wood, Jonathan D. Ballou, Taylor Callicrate, Jeremie B. Fant, M. Patrick Griffith, Andrea T. Kramer, Robert C. Lacy, Abby Meyer, Sara Sullivan, Kathy Traylor‐Holzer, Seana K. Walsh, Kayri Havens   +11 more
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Un llamado a 528 voces: Oportunidades de investigación con los sonidos de los mamíferos colombianos

Caldasia, 2020
Diferentes iniciativas han permitido conocer los sonidos de los mamíferos neotropicales. Aunque en Co-lombia hay algunos repositorios de registros bioacústicos, la Colección de Sonidos Ambientales Mauricio Álvarez-Rebolledo del Instituto ...
Julián Lozano-Flórez, Zuania Colón-Piñeiro, Orlando Acevedo-Charry   +2 more
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