Reptile checklist of Río Pilcomayo National Park, Formosa, Argentina

Paula Cano; Matías Federico Carpinetto; Héctor Ball; Germán Darío Peña

doi:10.15560/11.3.1658

Check List 11(3): e19256, doi: 10.15560/11.3.1658

Reptile checklist of Río Pilcomayo National Park, Formosa, Argentina

Paula Daniela Cano^‡, Héctor Alejandro Ball^‡, Matías Federico Carpinetto^‡, Germán Darío Peña^‡

‡ Administración de Parques Nacionales, Argentina

Corresponding author: Paula Cano ( daniganges@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: Cano P, Carpinetto M, Ball H, Peña G (2015) Reptile checklist of Río Pilcomayo National Park, Formosa, Argentina. Check List 11(3): 1658. https://doi.org/10.15560/11.3.1658

Abstract

The present study reports a qualitative survey of the reptiles present in Río Pilcomayo National Park in Formosa, Argentina. A total of 30 reptile species were recorded between June 2009 and June 2011. Here we provide a checklist that includes relative species abundance, the different habitats present in the national park as well as the national conservation category for each species. In addition, 12 other reptile species cited in the literature for this area are included in the checklist. This study provides baseline information for future research in the park.

Keywords

reptiles, national park, Formosa