The Caatinga is the largest seasonal dry tropical forest in South America and it has been
historically neglected in terms of its biodiversity. Regarding lizards, different studies led to …

The Caatinga is one of the few semiarid regions in the subtropical zone surrounded by
humid areas. Its fauna was previously considered impoverished and with few endemics, but …

Morphology is among the most important traits influencing the interaction of individual
animals with their environments. Fossoriality reflects this functional association between …

Abstract Different physiognomies at Parque Nacional da Serra das Confusões (PNSCo)
were intensively sampled aiming to access the distribution pattern of its herpetofauna. Sixty …

We describe a new species of Neotropical spiny-lizard of the genus Echinosaura from the
Imbabura and Carchi Provinces on the western slopes of the Andes in northwestern …

Calcified spines in the hemipenial surface occur convergently in several gymnophthalmid
lizard species and in advanced snakes. Based on the pronounced degrees of limb reduction …

Gymnophthalmus represents a challenging group for systematics of microteiid lizards. Due
to scarcity of exemplars and molecular data, the taxonomy of the genus has been unstable …

Within the semiarid Caatinga of Brazil, a biome dominated by a xeric arboreal-arbustive
vegetation, many lizards are restricted to forest remnants associated with highlands …

Ecological niche modeling has contributed to the investigation of the geographical
distribution and conservation of rare or little recorded species. Therefore, we studied the …

Amphisbaena bahiana was described by on the basis of a single specimen from Villa Nova
municipality (now Senhor do Bonfim), Bahia state, Brazil. The holotype was obtained …