Check List 9(2): 257-262, doi: 10.15560/9.2.257
The Reptile Collection of the Museu de Zoologia, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil
expand article infoBreno Hamdan‡, Daniela Pinto Coelho§, Annelise Batista D’Angiolella§, Eduardo José dos Reis Dias|, Rejâne Lira-da-Silva§
‡ Universidade Federal da Bahia; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Museu Nacional/UFRJ, Brazil§ Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil| Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Brazil

Corresponding author: Breno Hamdan ( hamdanbreno@gmail.com )

© 2017 Breno Hamdan, Daniela Coelho, Annelise D’Angiolella, Eduardo Dias, Rejâne Lira-da-Silva.
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: da Silva Jr. N, Dias E, Coelho D, D’Angiolella A, Lira-da-Silva R (2013) The Reptile Collection of the Museu de Zoologia, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil. Check List 9(2): 257-262. https://doi.org/10.15560/9.2.257
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Abstract
Brazilian scientific collections represent an important sample of the country’s biodiversity and are a testament to its history. The Reptile Collection of the Museu de Zoologia from Universidade Federal da Bahia (CRMZUFBA) has 5,206 specimens and 185 species (13 endemic to Brazil and 9 threatened) with one quarter of the known reptile species listed in Brazil, from over 175 municipalities. Although the CRMZUFBA houses species from all Brazilian biomes there is a strong regional presence. Knowledge of the species housed in smaller collections could avoid unrepresentative species descriptions and provide information concerning intraspecific variation, ecological features and geographic coverage.
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