A New Species ofAmeivula(Squamata, Teiidae) from Southern Espinhaço Mountain Range, Brazil

Whiptail lizards in South America: a new Ameivula (Squamata, Teiidae) from Planalto dos Gerais, Eastern Brazilian Cerrado

“…Currently, Ameivula has thirteen recognized species (table 1) distributed throughout the CisAndean open-areas south of the Amazon River (Arias et al, 2011b;Harvey et al, 2012;Silva and Ávila-Pires, 2013). These species generally occur in open habitats with sandy soils and high temperature, in very distinct landscape physiognomies, such as the Caatinga (Vanzolini, 1974;Vanzolini et al, 1980;Vitt, 1983Vitt, , 1995Sales et al, 2012), Cerrado (Vitt, 1991), "campos rupestres" Arias et al, 2014), Restingas (Dias and Rocha, 2004;Dias and Rocha, 2007;Santana et al, 2010;, and the Bolivian, Paraguayan and Argentinian Chaco (Williams and Tedesco, 1985;Cei, 1993;Dirksen and De la Riva, 1999;Cabrera, 2012).…”

“…We prepared the hemipenis of MZUSP 99677 and MZUSP 99623 following the procedures described by Manzani and Abe (1988), subsequently modified by Pesantes ( 1994) and Zaher ( 1999; see also Zaher and Prudente, 2003). Later, we compared with the hemipenial morphology of A. confusioniba, A. pyrrhogularis, A. venetacauda (Silva and Ávila-Pires, 2013), ana A. cipoensis (Arias et al, 2014).…”

Composição da Anurofauna em ambiente semiárido do Brasil com observações sobre atividade reprodutiva

“…Despite being neglected with a small parcel protected by conservation units, the Caatinga has a diverse biological heritage, in which recent studies (Arias et al, 2001(Arias et al, , 2011Passos et al, 2011;Magalhães et al, 2014;Santana et al, 2015) have described new species in the semi-arid regions, demonstrating that, contrary to that many stated previously, this domain is not poor in species or endemism, although still poorly sampled (Pessoa et al, 2012).…”

Herpetofauna recorded by a fauna rescue program in a Caatinga area of João Câmara, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

“…Although this list can be representative of the groups and the biome, it is out of date. In the last decade, many surveys were performed and new species were described, while taxonomic revisions revealed endemic taxa (Heyer and Juncá 2003, Borges-Nojosa and Santos 2005, Rodrigues et al 2006, Arias et al 2011, Ribeiro et al 2012, Cavalcanti et al 2014, Guedes et al 2014a, Pires et al 2014, Recorder et al 2014, Roberto et al 2014.…”