Check List 6(2): 280-286, doi: 10.15560/6.2.280
Reptiles, Squamata, Parque Natural Municipal da Taquara, municipality of Duque de Caxias, state of Rio de Janeiro, Southeastern Brazil
expand article infoRodrigo de Oliveira Lula Salles, Luiz Norberto Weber, Thiago Silva-Soares

Corresponding author: Rodrigo Salles ( sallesbio@gmail.com )

© 2017 Rodrigo Salles, Luiz Weber, Thiago Silva-Soares.
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Citation: Salles R, Weber L, Silva-Soares T (2010) Reptiles, Squamata, Parque Natural Municipal da Taquara, municipality of Duque de Caxias, state of Rio de Janeiro, Southeastern Brazil. Check List 6(2): 280-286. https://doi.org/10.15560/6.2.280
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Abstract
Herein we report a list of the reptiles from Parque Natural Municipal da Taquara, municipality of Duque de Caxias, state of Rio de Janeiro, southeastern Brazil, an area situated in the Atlantic Rainforest Domain. The study was carried out from September 2006 to October 2008. We recorded 31 species of Squamate reptiles: one species of the family Amphisbaenidae; eight species of lizards of the families Anguidae (n = 1), Gekkonidae (1), Phyllodactylidae (1), Polychrotidae (1), Scincidae (1), Teiidae (2), and Tropiduridae (1); and 22 species of snakes of the families Boidae (2), Colubridae (6), Dipsadidae (11), Elapidae (1), and Viperidae (2). Our study indicates that the PNMT is an important area for the conservation of the Squamate reptile assemblages that inhabit lowlands of Atlantic Rainforest in Brazil.
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