Checklist of lizards of the Juruti, state of Pará, Brazil

By

Prudente, Ana Lúcia Costa
Magalhães, Fernanda
Menks, Alessandro
Sarmento, João Fabrício De Melo

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2013-2-1

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

9

Series / Issue

Issue: 1

Pages

42--50

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/9.1.42

 

Abstract

We present the first lizard species list for the municipality of Juruti, state of Pará, Brazil. The list was drawn up as a result of data obtained from specimens deposited in the Herpetological Collection of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi and from inventories conducted in 2008-2011. Sampling methods included pitfall traps with drift fences and time constrained searches. We considered the data collected by other researchers, incidental encounters and records of dead individuals on the road. We recorded 33 species, 26 genera and ten families. Norops tandai was the most abundant species. Compared with the other regions of Amazonia, the region of Juruti presented a large number of lizards. However, further studies with an increase in the sampling effort, could prove this area to be richer in lizards than that observed so far.