Squamate Reptiles from municipality of Barcarena and surroundings, state of Pará, north of Brazil

Abstract

We present the first species list of squamate reptiles of the municipality of Barcarena and surroundings, in state of Pará, north of Brazil. The study area is dominated by secondary florest at different successional stages. The list was drawn up as a result of data obtained from specimens deposited in the Herpetological Collection of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi and inventories of the herpetofauna conducted in the Barcarena region. This list comprises 17 families (Amphisbaenia: Amphisbaenidae; Sauria: Gekkonidae, Gymnophthalmidae, Iguanidae, Phyllodactylidae, Polychrotidae, Scincidae, Sphaerodactylidae, Teiidae, Tropiduridae; Serpentes: Aniliidae, Boidae, Colubridae, Dipsadidae, Elapidae, Typhlopidae and Viperidae), 44 genera and 59 species of squamate reptiles.

Checklist of lizards of the Juruti, state of Pará, Brazil

“…The number of species recorded in the Juruti region (33 species) corresponds to 35% of all known lizards in the Brazilian Amazon, and 25% of lizards known throughout the Amazon region (Ávila-Pires et al 2007). This number is higher than the number of species recorded in other studies conducted in different herpetofaunistic regions of the Brazilian Amazon (Cunha et al 1985;Martins 1991;Ávila-Pires and Hoogmoed 1997;Bernardi et al 2002;Gardner et al 2007;Macedo et al 2008;Ávila-Pires et al 2009;Ilha and Dixo 2010;Silva et al 2011;Bernardo et al 2012;Pantoja and Fraga 2012) (Table 2). (Table 2).…”

“…Its distribution comprises eastern and central Amazonia, including Brazil, French Guiana, Suriname, southern Guyana and southern Venezuela (Ávila-Pires 1995). The species Chatogekko amazonicus, Gonatodes humeralis, Ameiva ameiva e Kentropyx calcarata are widely distributed, occurring in different areas of the Brazilian Amazon (Cunha et al 1985;Duellman 1990;Martins 1991;Ávila-Pires and Hoogmoed 1997;Bernardi et al 2002;Macedo et al 2008;Vitt et al 2008;Ilha and Dixo 2010;Ávila-Pires et al 2010;Silva et al 2011;Bernardo et al 2012) (Table 2). However, according Geurgas and Rodrigues (2010), there are molecular evidences that C. amazonicus may represent several distinct species.…”

“…Lizards recorded in Juruti, west of Pará, Brazil and other studies conducted in different regions of the Brazilian Amazon. 1 = Porto Walter (Ávila-Pires et al 2009); 2 = Riozinho da Liberdade (Bernarde et al 2011); 3 = Balbina (Martins 1991); 4 = Manaus (Duellman 1990;Vitt et al 2008); 5 = Rio Ituxi (Ávila-Pires et al 2009; 6 = Rio Preto da Eva (Ilha and Dixo 2010); 7 = Rio Gregório (Pantoja and Fraga 2012); 8 = Carajás (Cunha et al 1985;Nascimento et al 1987); 9 = Caxiuanã (Ávila-Pires and Hoogmoed 1997; Bernarde et al 2002); 10 = Curuá-Una (Ávila-Pires et al 2009); 11 = Barcarena (Silva et al 2011); 12 = Trairão (Mendes-Pinto and Souza, 2011); 13 = Tapirapé (Bernardo et al 2012); 14 = Juruti (This study); 15 = Espigão do Oeste (Macedo et al 2008 …”

New records of Imantodes lentiferus (Cope, 1894) (Squamata: Dipsadidae) from the states of Pará and Mato Grosso, Brazil

“…In the Eastern Amazon region this species is considered rare, having a low occurrence or being absent in many sites (e.g., Cunha and Nascimento 1993; Martins and Oliveira 1999;Frota et al 2005;França et al 2006;Vogt et al 2007;Prudente et al 2010;Silva et al 2011; Ávila specimens collected in Mina do Palito (06°19′34″ S, 055°47′47″ W), municipality of Itaituba, state of Pará, Brazil, without specific collection data.…”

“…chocoensis Torres-Carvajal, Yánez-Muñoz, Quirola, Smith andAlmendáriz, 2012. The arboreal species Imantodes lentiferus is distributed in lowland rainforests of the Amazon basin and Guiana region, reported from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Suriname, French Guiana, Guyana, Bolivia, Venezuela, and Brazil (states of Acre, Rondônia, Amazonas, Pará, and Mato Grosso) (Myers 1982;Dixon and Soini 1986;Pérez-Santos and Moreno 1988;Duellman 1990;Donnelly and Myers 1991;Cunha and Nascimento 1993;Castaño-M et al 2004;Avila-Pires et al 2009;Prudente et al 2010;Ávila and Kawashita-Ribeiro 2011;Silva et al 2011;Sampaio and Maciel 2012;Cole et al 2013). Imantodes lentiferus differs from all congeners by the number of dorsal scale rows in the middle of the body (15 in I. lentiferus vs. 17 in all other species of Imantodes) and color patterns of head and body (Myers 1982).…”