Check List 15(1): 79-86, doi: 10.15560/15.1.79
New distribution records for amphibians and reptiles in eastern Chihuahua, Mexico
expand article infoTomas Hernandez‡, Mark W. Herr§, Skyler Stevens|, Karlee Cork|, Carolina Medina-Nava, C.J. Vialpando#, Timothy Warfel¤, Noah Fields|, Ciara Brodie|, Sean P. Graham|
‡ Department of Biology, Midland College, Midland, Texas, United States of America§ The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America| Sul Ross State University, Alpine, Texas, United States of America¶ Department of Natural Resources Management, Alpine, Texas, United States of America# New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, New Mexico, United States of America¤ Colorado Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation, Lakewood, Colorado, United States of America

Corresponding author: Mark W. Herr ( mwherr@gmail.com )

Academic editor: Edward A. Myers
© 2019 Tomas Hernandez, Mark W. Herr, Skyler Stevens, Karlee Cork, Carolina Medina-Nava, C.J. Vialpando, Timothy Warfel, Noah Fields, Ciara Brodie, Sean P. Graham.
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: Hernandez T, Herr MW, Stevens S, Cork K, Medina-Nava C, Vialpando CJ, Warfel T, Fields N, Brodie C, Graham SP (2019) New distribution records for amphibians and reptiles in eastern Chihuahua, Mexico. Check List 15(1): 79-86. https://doi.org/10.15560/15.1.79
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Abstract

Distributions of amphibian and reptile species in northern Mexico are poorly understood when compared to adjacent areas of the southwestern United States. To address this gap in knowledge, we conducted a series of surveys in east-central Chihuahua, Mexico in 2014–2016. We documented 40 new municipality records for amphibian and reptile species by means of high quality digital photos. Photographic surveys offer a low-cost, highly accessible technique for accumulating distributional information.

Keywords
Aridland, herpetofauna, northern Mexico, protected areas, surveys