The herpetofauna of the Estação Ecológica de Uruçuí-Una, state of Piauí, Brazil

Reptile species composition in the Middle Gurguéia and comparison with inventories in the eastern Parnaíba River Basin, State of Piauí, Brazil

“…The collection studied includes reptiles from five municipalities in the Middle Gurguéia region (MG), southwestern Piauí: Alvorada do Gurguéia (AG) 08°27'03.6"S, 43°52'05.05"W; Cristino Castro (CC) 08°47'36.0"S, 44°12'26.2"W; Palmeira do Piauí (PP) 08°43'32.7"S, 44°14'04.5"W; Redenção do Gurguéia (RG) 09°28'24.8"S, 44°36'2.30"W, and Bom Jesus (BJ) 09°05'18.6"S, 44°19'41.4"W. Figure 1 shows these areas in the Gurguéia River Basin and eight other areas previously inventoried in the Parnaíba River Basin, used here for comparison: the municipalities of Batalha (BT; Silva et al, 2015), Barras (BR; Benício et al, 2015b), Castelo do Piauí (CP; Rodrigues & Prudente, 2011), Picos (PC; Benício et al, 2015a), and the conservation units Parque Nacional Sete Cidades (7C; Rocha & Prudente, 2010), Parque Nacional Serra da Capivara (CA; Cavalcante et al, 2014), Estação Ecológica de Uruçuí-Una (UU; Dal Vechio et al, 2013), and Parque Nacional Serra das Confusões (CO;Dal Vechio et al, 2016). Notes on the geographic distribution of reptiles of the Parnaíba River Basin are provided in the discussion.…”

“…Of the nine inventories carried out in the eastern Parnaíba River Basin (PRB), the most specimens and highest richness were found in the Estação Ecológi-ca de Uruçuí-Una (Dal Vechio et al, 2013) and the Parque Nacional Serra das Confusões (Dal Vechio et al, 2016), respectively (Table 2).…”

“…In the eastern Parnaíba Basin, State of Piauí, some areas have been inventoried: Parque Nacional Serra da Capivara (Cavalcante et al, 2014), Estação Ecológica Uruçuí-Una (Dal Vechio et al, 2013), Parque Nacional Serra das Confusões (Dal Vechio et al, 2016), Parque Nacional Sete Cidades (Rocha & Prudente, 2010), and sites in the municipalities of Valença (Vanzolini, 1976), Castelo do Piauí (Rodrigues & Prudente, 2011), Picos (Benício et al, 2015a), Barras (Benício et al, 2015b) and Batalha (Silva et al, 2015).…”

Amphibians and reptiles from southeastern Goiás, Central Brazil

“…Along with the neighboring domains of Caatinga and Chaco, the Cerrado forms a diagonal belt of dry open areas in South America (Vanzolini 1988;Dal Vechio et al 2013). Cerrado is a world biodiversity hotspot (Myers et al 2000), prospective studies are urgent because of the fast destruction of natural landscapes.…”

Distribution extension and revised map of Erythrolamprus pygmaeus (Cope, 1868) (Serpentes: Dipsadidae)

“…Long term surveys during different climatic seasons have been successful in improving lists of herpetofaunal diversity (Silva-Jr. 1993, Pavan andDixo 2004;Duellman 2005;Dal Vechio et al 2013). At Jirau dam, such effort was successful in adding some knowledge on the taxonomy, geography distribution and ecology on herpetofaunistic groups (Teixeira et al 2013(Teixeira et al , 2014Dal Vechio et al 2015, this study) nonetheless, despite all the massive effort only a single specimen of Erythrolamprus pygmaeus was found.…”