Filling a gap in the distribution of the Berthold’s Bush Anole, Polychrus gutturosus (Squamata, Polychrotidae), in Honduras

By

Antúnez-Fonseca, Cristopher A
Martínez, Marcio
King, Travis W.
Ordoñez-Mazier, Diego I.
Wilson, Larry D
Turcios-Casco, Manfredo A.

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2022-11-14

Original Publication

Herpetozoa

Volume

35

Pages

219--223

Subjects

canopy , Colón Department , Conservation , herpetofauna , La Mosquitia , microhabitat , Natural history , protected natural area

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/herpetozoa.35.e86751

 

Abstract

The family Polychrotidae Fitzinger, 1843 is represented in Honduras by a single species,Polychrus gutturosusBerthold, 1845. This canopy dweller is distributed in the lowland moist forests and riparian forest within pine savannah of the northern and eastern regions of Honduras. Only 13 records and nine localities support the presence of the species in the country; therefore, the distribution and natural history of the species in Honduras is essentially unknown. Herein, we provide a new locality and natural history observations of a specimen captured in the core zone of the Reserva del Hombre y La Biosfera del Río Plátano. This record represents the north-western most occurrence ofPolychrus gutturosusin a region known as the Mosquitia and fills an important distributional gap for this poorly known species.