Cuba es un país privilegiado al tener en su fauna pocos animales que pueden resultar peligrosos para el hombre; sin embargo, algunas especies son lo suficientemente tóxicas como para provocar accidentes que requieren de ...

A number of amphibians and reptiles have cyclic behavior, becoming inactive with the coming of the dry season. In South America this pattern of activity is common, particularly in savannah-like vegetation. During the dry ...

Comparative phylogeography is now a common approach to understand how historical processes have shaped the formation of lineages in a broad spectrum of codistributed populations of different taxa. However, these types ...

La conservación de la biodiversidad es uno de los grandes objetivos y desafíos de los biólogos contemporáneos. Los principales problemas que enfrentan quienes deben cumplir este objetivo es que los recursos y la capacidad ...

We analyze the geographic distribution pattern of Chilean amphibian and reptile species between 18°20′S (Arica) to 56°S (Magellanic Area) by the identification of centers of higher richness and endemism and we infer the ...

The Beaded Mexican Reptile is one of the 2 species recognized as venomous reptiles in the world. There are known 3 subspecies of Heloderma horridum, all show a very localized distribution, along the Pacifi c Coast. At ...

The Beaded Mexican Reptile is one of the 2 species recognized as venomous reptiles in the world. There are known 3 subspecies of Heloderma horridum, all show a very localized distribution, along the Pacifi c Coast. At ...

La fauna cubana de reptiles está integrada por 162 especies; de ellas, 83% son endémicas. Entre las especies que no son nativas, se encuentra un interesante grupo de lagartos pálidos, a veces casi traslúcidos, de ojos ...

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