Check List 16(1): 155-161, doi: 10.15560/16.1.155
First record of Ptychoglossus brevifrontalis Boulenger, 1912 (Squamata, Alopoglossidae) in French Guiana
Maël Dewynter‡, Laurent Godé§, Thierry Girardot§, Elodie Alice Courtois|‡ 1900 La Désirée, 97351 Matoury. French Guiana, Cayenne, French Guyana§ Parc Amazonien de Guyane, Remire-Montjoly, French Guyana| LEEISA, Cayenne, French Guyana
Corresponding author: Elodie Alice Courtois ( elodie.courtois@cnrs.fr ) Academic editor: Josué Anderson Rêgo Azevedo © Maël Dewynter, Laurent Godé, Thierry Girardot, Elodie Alice Courtois. 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:
Dewynter M, Godé L, Girardot T, Courtois EA (2020) First record of Ptychoglossus brevifrontalis Boulenger, 1912 (Squamata, Alopoglossidae) in French Guiana. Check List 16(1): 155-161. https://doi.org/10.15560/16.1.155 |  |
Abstract
One specimen of Ptychoglossus brevifrontalis Boulenger, 1912 was found during a field survey in the core area of the Amazonian National Park of French Guiana in the southern part of the country. Despite intensive herpetological surveys in French Guiana during the last three decades, this is the first record of the species for this country. This new locality extends the distribution of the species and draws attention to the need for more study of litter-dwelling lizards in French Guiana.
Keywords
Guiana Shield, Herpetofauna, lizards, Neotropical region, Parc Amazonien de Guyane, South America