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Natural History

First record of the speckled forest-pitviper for the state of Acre, Brazil

13/05/2013

In another natural history short note me and a few colleagues document the finding of an adult specimen of Bothrops taeniatus Wagler, 1824 in the Municipality of Assis Brasil, in the  Rio Acre Ecological Station, Acre, Brazil. This is the first record of this species for the state of Acre, extending the species distribution globally by approximately 164 Km west. Find … [Read more…]

Posted in: Publications Tagged: Acre, Biodiversity, Bothrops taeniatus, Brazil, Check List, Herpetology, Natural History, Publication, Reptiles, snake, viper

First record of the Bicoloured-spined Porcupine for Brazil

05/03/2013

A few days ago I co-author a short note that presents the first record of the Bicoloured-spined Porcupine for Brazil. Its not often that a mammal of this size is first recorded for a country, even one as large and biodiverse as Brazil! Checkout the short note here.  

Posted in: Publications Tagged: Acre, Amazon, Biodiversity, Brazil, Check List, Natural History, Porcupine

Little known snake is already endangered

02/12/2012

The snake Bothrops muriciensis is a little known Brazilian viper that until recently was only known from the couple of records that were used to describe it. I paper I co-authored in the open-access North-Western Journal of Zoology presents six more records and looks at applying the IUCN Red List criteria to the species until now classified as Data Deficient. … [Read more…]

Posted in: Publications Tagged: Biodiversity, Bothrops muriciensis, Brazil, Diogo Verissimo, Natural History, North-western Journal of Zoology, Reptiles

Two new natural history short notes

04/03/2012

Two short notes on the distribution of two Brazilian lizards have recently been published by the journal Herpetological Notes. Both can be access for free at the journals website or in the links below: Freitas, M.A., D. Veríssimo, S. Albuquerque and T.O. Lima. Distribution extension for the lizard Enyalius lechii (Boulenger,1885) (Squamata:Leiosauridae): Third record for the state of Rondônia, Brazil. Herpetology … [Read more…]

Posted in: Publications Tagged: Brazil, Diogo Verissimo, Enyalius lechii, Herpetology, Herpetology Notes, Natural History, Procellosaurinus erythrocercus, Reptiles

New publication on Amazonian lizard

02/01/2012

I was a co-author on the paper “Distribution extension of Uracentron flaviceps (Guichenot, 1855) (Reptilia: Squamata): Second record for the state of Acre, Brazil” published in the journal Check List last December. Read it here! This small piece is a interesting contribution to the available knowledge on the natural history of this little know Amazonian … [Read more…]

Posted in: Publications Tagged: Amazon, Check List, Diogo Verissimo, Herpetology, Natural History, Publication, Uracentron flaviceps

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