Check List 16(3): 655-659, doi: 10.15560/16.3.655
Distribution extension and a new state record for Amphisbaena mertensi Strauch, 1881 (Squamata, Amphisbaenidae) in central Brazil
Bruno Alessandro Augusto Peña Corrêa‡, Afonso Afonso Santiago de Oliveira Meneses‡‡ University of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil
Corresponding author: Bruno Alessandro Augusto Peña Corrêa ( brunobio.unb@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Raúl Maneyro © Bruno Alessandro Augusto Peña Corrêa, Afonso Afonso Santiago de Oliveira Meneses. 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:
Corrêa BAAP, Meneses ASO (2020) Distribution extension and a new state record for Amphisbaena mertensi Strauch, 1881 (Squamata, Amphisbaenidae) in central Brazil. Check List 16(3): 655-659. https://doi.org/10.15560/16.3.655 |  |
Abstract
We updated the distribution of Amphisbaena mertensi to northeastern central Brazil based on the finding of a specimen in an urban area in the Cerrado. This species had already been recorded in south-central Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina. Our new record is 300 km away from the nearest point, Araguari, in the north of the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. We included a distribution map for the species in South America, and a list of the amphisbaenas species found in Distrito Federal and discuss the conservation of this group.
Keywords
Cerrado, Distrito Federal, Squamata, neotropical, South America, worm lizard