Among the principal causes producing detrimental effects on global biodiversity are
introductions of alien species. Very few attempts to control introduced amphibians and …

The herpetofauna of the state of Veracruz, Mexico, currently consists of 359 species,
including 76 anurans, 45 caudates, one caecilian, one crocodylian, 217 squamates, and 19 …

Mesoamerica, the area composed of Mexico and Central America, is the third largest of the
world's biodiversity hotspots. The Central American herpetofauna currently consists of 493 …

A substantial number of changes to the composition of the herpetofauna of the Mexican state
of Oaxaca, including taxonomic additions and deletions, have occurred in the five years …

The herpetofauna of Jalisco, Mexico, is comprised of 223 species, including 47 anurans,
four salamanders, one caecilian, one crocodylian, 158 squamates, and 12 turtles. We …

The beaded lizard (Heloderma horridum) and Gila monster (H. suspectum) are large, highly
venomous, anguimorph lizards threatened by human persecution, habitat loss and …

The mountain forests of Middle America are renowned for their endemic biodiversity, and
arboreal alligator lizards (genus Abronia) are high-profile vertebrates endemic to this region …

The cloud forest shows a great diversity of groups and has been considered as centers of
high richness and endemism, throughout Asia, Africa and mainly in the Americas. To …

Several lines of evidence suggest that numerous populations of cantils (Agkistrodon
bilineatus, A. taylori), New World pitvipers with a distribution in Mesoamerica, are in rapid …

We revise the species of anoles occurring along the Pacific versant of Mexico west of the
Isthmus de Tehuantepec in the states of Oaxaca, Guerrero, and Puebla. Based on our …