“…In 2004, 139 species of amphibians and 188 species of reptiles were known to occur in the Choco biogeographic region of Colombia (Castaño-Mora et al, 2004;Lynch & Suárez-Mayorga, 2004). However, since 2005, the number of amphibians and reptiles recorded has increased substantially for this region to 157 amphibians and 215 reptiles (Ayerbe-González & López-López, 2005;Heyer, 2005;Passos et al, 2009;Poe et al, 2009;Rengifo & Rentería-Moreno, 2011;Cadle, 2012;Grant & Myers, 2013;Palacios-Rodríguez et al, 2013a, 2013bJaramillo-Martínez et al, 2015;Ospina-Sarria et al, 2015;Sánchez-Pacheco et al, 2016;Márquez et al, 2017;Angarita-Sierra & Lynch, 2017;Grant et al, 2017;Rada et al, 2017;Medina-Rangel et al, 2018a, 2018bPinto-Erazo & Medina-Rangel, 2018, Grisales-Martínez & Rendón-Valencia, 2019 representing ca. 19 % and 35 % of the richness of Colombian amphibians and reptiles, respectively.…”