Amphibians and reptiles from southeastern Goiás, Central Brazil

Danusy Santos; Edmar Victor-Jr.; Sheila Andrade; Wilian Vaz-Silva

doi:10.15560/10.1.131

Check List 10(1): 131-148, doi: 10.15560/10.1.131

Amphibians and reptiles from southeastern Goiás, Central Brazil

Danusy Lopes Santos^‡, Sheila Pereira de Andrade^§, Edmar Pereira Victor-Jr.^§, Wilian Vaz-Silva^|

‡ Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil§ Centro Tecnológico de Engenharia Ltda., Brazil| Centro Tecnológico de Engenharia Ltda.; Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, Brazil

Corresponding author: Danusy Santos ( danusylopes@yahoo.com.br )

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: Santos D, Victor-Jr. E, Andrade S, Vaz-Silva W (2014) Amphibians and reptiles from southeastern Goiás, Central Brazil. Check List 10(1): 131-148. https://doi.org/10.15560/10.1.131

Abstract

Even harboring a high diversity and many endemic species of amphibians and reptiles, the Cerrado biome has shown drastic changes due to the conversion of natural areas into pastures and plantations. Here, we present a checklist of amphibians and reptiles from southeastern state of Goiás, Central Brazil. This checklist was the result of collecting efforts of an inventory along the basin of the Piracanjuba and Peixe rivers carried out between September 2010 and January 2011. We recorded 39 amphibians and 40 reptiles. These results were also compared to other studies in the Cerrado biome. Our results showed that this region has a rich herpetofauna, despite the progress of anthropogenic activities in the region.

Keywords

Amphibia; Reptilia; Cerrado; Goiás