Check List 5(3): 732-745, doi: 10.15560/5.3.732
Lizards and Amphisbaenians, municipality of Viçosa, state of Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil
Henrique Caldeira Costa,
Vitor Dias Fernandes,
Adriana Castro Rodrigues,
Renato Neves Feio
Corresponding author:
Henrique Costa
(
ccosta@yahoo.com.br
)
© 2017 Henrique Costa, Vitor Fernandes, Adriana Rodrigues, Renato Feio. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Costa H, Rodrigues A, Fernandes V, Feio R (2009) Lizards and Amphisbaenians, municipality of Viçosa, state of Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil. Check List 5(3): 732-745. https://doi.org/10.15560/5.3.732 | |
Abstract
We performed a survey of lizards and amphisbaenians from municipality of Viçosa, in Atlantic Forest from state of Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil, based on data of the herpetological collections of Museu de Zoologia João Moojen, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, and Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo. One hundred and forty six specimens of 14 species were analyzed, belonging to the following families: Amphisbaenidae, Anguidae, Gekkonidae, Gymnophthalmidae, Leiosauridae, Polychrotidae, Scincidae, Teiidae and Tropiduridae. We hope to supply basic that helps to understand species distribution of this group in the Atlantic Forest of Minas Gerais and southeastern Brazil.