Abstract Vanzosaura rubricauda (Boulenger, 1902) is a small-bodied gymnophthalmid lizard
widespread in dry biomes of South America. Throughout its distribution, V. rubricauda …

Despite advances within particular groups, systematics of the Teiidae has long been
unsatisfactory, because fewmorphological characters have been described for this family …

Ecological niche modeling (ENM) has become an important tool in conservation biology.
Despite its recent success, several basic issues related to algorithm performance are still …

The gecko genus Phyllopezus occurs across South America's open biomes: Cerrado,
Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests (SDTF, including Caatinga), and Chaco. We generated a …

Levels of biodiversity in the Neotropics are largely underestimated despite centuries of
research interest in this region. This is particularly true for the Cerrado, the largest …

The recognition of cryptic diversity within geographically widespread species is gradually
becoming a trend in the highly speciose Neotropical biomes. The statistical methods to …

We present distribution data of all Anguidae, Scincidae, and Teiidae lizards known from the
Brazilian Amazonia, totaling 29 species-level taxa, belonging to 14 genera. This represents …

Sphaerodactyl geckos comprise five genera distributed across Central and South America
and the Caribbean. We estimated phylogenetic relationships among sphaerodactyl genera …

Based on phylogenetic and molecular dating analyses of several species of C
nemidophorus and A meiva, representing major groups of species of these two genera, we …

In the middle course of the São Francisco River (SFR), inserted in the semiarid domain of
the Caatinga, there is an extensive field of palaeodunes which represents an important …