Turtles are among the smallest of vertebrate groups in terms of modern diversity, but they
are also among the most endangered. More than half, 51% to 56% of taxa are considered …

Somos una fundación empresarial patrocinada únicamente por Empresas Polar, dedicada a
programas de utilidad colectiva e interés general con el fin de instalar capacidades en la …

Natural history collections are essential to a wide variety of studies in biology because they
maintain large collections of specimens and associated data, including genetic material (eg …

I discuss the taxonomy, distribution, and conservation of the lizards, crocodiles, and turtles
occurring in the Central American country of Honduras. This is the fourth and final work in …

Using nearly range-wide sampling, we analyze up to 1848 bp of mitochondrial DNA of 183
helmeted terrapins and identify a minimum of 12 deeply divergent species-level clades …

Kinosternon is the most speciose genus of extant turtles, with 22 currently recognized
species, distributed across large parts of the Americas. Most species have small …

Two species of manatees are found in Northern Brazil—the Antillean manatee (Trichechus
manatus), which is found along the coast from Florida to Northeastern Brazil, and the …

Haemogregarines (Adeleorina) have a high prevalence in turtles. Nevertheless, there is only
one Hepatozoon species described that infects Testudines so far; it is Hepatozoon …

Wide‐ranging species are seldom considered conservation priorities, yet they have the
potential to harbour genetically deeply differentiated units across environments or ecological …

We used molecular tools and a multilocus approach to investigate the phylogeography of
Lepidothrix coronata across most of its ample range. We sequenced six DNA fragments to …