Continental, insular and coastal marine reptiles from the municipality of Vitória, state of Espírito Santo, southeastern Brazil

By

Silva-Soares, Thiago
Ferreira, Rodrigo Barbosa
Salles, Rodrigo De Oliveira Lula
Rocha, Carlos Frederico Duarte da

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2011-5-1

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

7

Series / Issue

Issue: 3

Pages

290--298

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/7.3.290

 

Abstract

We present a list of the reptiles of the municipality of Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil, compiled through primary data (specimens gathered by the authors) and secondary data (specimens housed at museums and records available in literature). We record 51 reptile species distributed by the orders Crocodylia (one species), Testudines (nine species), and Squamata (forty-one species), subdivided in amphisbaenians (three species), lizards (eleven species), and snakes (twenty-seven species). We recorded six species that are listed as threatened in the Brazilian List of Endangered Species, as the terrestrial lizard Cnemidophorus nativo and the marine turtles Lepidochelys olivacea and Dermochelys coriacea.