Squamate reptiles of the Atlantic Forest of northern Bahia, Brazil

Marco Antonio de Freitas

doi:10.15560/10.5.1020

Check List 10(5): 1020-1030, doi: 10.15560/10.5.1020

Squamate reptiles of the Atlantic Forest of northern Bahia, Brazil

Marco Antonio de Freitas^‡

‡ Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio), PARNA do Catimbau, Vila Catimbau, 56537-000, Buíque, Pernambuco, PE, Brazil

Corresponding author: Marco de Freitas ( philodryas@hotmail.com )

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: Antonio de Freitas M (2014) Squamate reptiles of the Atlantic Forest of northern Bahia, Brazil. Check List 10(5): 1020-1030. https://doi.org/10.15560/10.5.1020

Abstract

We present a list of squamate reptiles of the northern Atlantic forest of Bahia, Brazil, comprising a total of 29 municipalities. The study area was sampled opportunistically over more than 20 years resulting in a total of 482 specimens deposited in various herpetological collections. Of these, 314 were snakes belonging to 62 species and seven families, 42 were amphisbaenas belonging to five species in a single family and 125 specimens were lizards, grouped in 36 species and 12 families.

Keywords

reptiles; squamates; Atlantic Forest; Bahia