The Caatinga is the largest seasonal dry tropical forest in South America and it has been
historically neglected in terms of its biodiversity. Regarding lizards, different studies led to …

Popular species names have always been based on human relationships with things
around them, usually reflecting species' external morphology, behavior or even the habitat …

Aim To use parsimony analysis of endemicity and cladistic analysis of distributions and
endemism to evaluate two hypotheses addressing biogeographical relationships among …

The present study is a synthesis on snake diversity and distribution in the Caatinga region of
northeastern Brazil, providing an updated species list and data on natural history and …

Abstract The Feline Night Monkey, Aotus azarae infulatus (Kuhl, 1820), is recorded for the
first time in the Caatinga biome and in the state of Piauí, northeastern Brazil, and represents …

Abstract The Caatinga of northeastern Brazil is the largest nucleus of the seasonally dry
tropical forest biome. Number of bird species in lists of the Caatinga often are quite different …

We surveyed the herpetofauna from the Complex of Planalto da Ibiapaba (CPI), CE, Brazil,
during two years, using five sampling methods and information available in the literature …

Cerrado and Caatinga are neighboring open biomes of tropical South America, but their
vegetation, soil, and climate characteristics render them distinctive formations. Despite these …

A Floresta amazônica ocupa aproximadamente 5, 4 milhões de Km2 e estende-se por oito
países na América do Sul. A porção mais oriental do bioma atinge o Estado do Maranhão …

We provide an updated list of amphibians and reptiles of the state of Ceará, northeastern
Brazil, with information on species distribution patterns and conservation priority areas. Data …