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Composition and natural history notes of the coastal snake assemblage from Northern Bahia, Brazil
Abstract. Information about the snake diversity and their natural history from the Atlantic forest domain in Brazil refer mostly to inland forests than to coastal region. Within the state of Bahia, this knowledge is concentrated to the southeastern coastal stretch. Herein we report on the diversity...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4992808/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27594800 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.611.9529 |
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author | Marques, Ricardo Mebert, Konrad Fonseca, Érica Rödder, Dennis Solé, Mirco Tinôco, Moacir Santos |
author_facet | Marques, Ricardo Mebert, Konrad Fonseca, Érica Rödder, Dennis Solé, Mirco Tinôco, Moacir Santos |
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description | Abstract. Information about the snake diversity and their natural history from the Atlantic forest domain in Brazil refer mostly to inland forests than to coastal region. Within the state of Bahia, this knowledge is concentrated to the southeastern coastal stretch. Herein we report on the diversity of snakes from the restinga, ombrophilous forest and anthropogenic environment from the northern Atlantic coast of Bahia. We sampled nine sites for three years and visited four museum collections. Furthermore, we provide anecdotal natural history information, voucher analyses, literature complements, and a key to fascilitate species identification. We report a total of 774 snakes belonging to 50 species and 23 new distribution records for northeastern coast of Bahia, supplemented by new data on feeding and reproduction. The number of detected species is similar to numbers obtained in comparable studies from other Brazilian ecoregions. This study reports and focuses for the first time on all known species of snakes from the northeastern coast of Bahia. |
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spelling | pubmed-49928082016-09-02 Composition and natural history notes of the coastal snake assemblage from Northern Bahia, Brazil Marques, Ricardo Mebert, Konrad Fonseca, Érica Rödder, Dennis Solé, Mirco Tinôco, Moacir Santos Zookeys Research Article Abstract. Information about the snake diversity and their natural history from the Atlantic forest domain in Brazil refer mostly to inland forests than to coastal region. Within the state of Bahia, this knowledge is concentrated to the southeastern coastal stretch. Herein we report on the diversity of snakes from the restinga, ombrophilous forest and anthropogenic environment from the northern Atlantic coast of Bahia. We sampled nine sites for three years and visited four museum collections. Furthermore, we provide anecdotal natural history information, voucher analyses, literature complements, and a key to fascilitate species identification. We report a total of 774 snakes belonging to 50 species and 23 new distribution records for northeastern coast of Bahia, supplemented by new data on feeding and reproduction. The number of detected species is similar to numbers obtained in comparable studies from other Brazilian ecoregions. This study reports and focuses for the first time on all known species of snakes from the northeastern coast of Bahia. Pensoft Publishers 2016-08-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4992808/ /pubmed/27594800 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.611.9529 Text en Ricardo Marques, Konrad Mebert, Érica Fonseca, Dennis Rödder, Mirco Solé, Moacir Santos Tinôco http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Marques, Ricardo Mebert, Konrad Fonseca, Érica Rödder, Dennis Solé, Mirco Tinôco, Moacir Santos Composition and natural history notes of the coastal snake assemblage from Northern Bahia, Brazil |
title | Composition and natural history notes of the coastal snake assemblage from Northern Bahia, Brazil |
title_full | Composition and natural history notes of the coastal snake assemblage from Northern Bahia, Brazil |
title_fullStr | Composition and natural history notes of the coastal snake assemblage from Northern Bahia, Brazil |
title_full_unstemmed | Composition and natural history notes of the coastal snake assemblage from Northern Bahia, Brazil |
title_short | Composition and natural history notes of the coastal snake assemblage from Northern Bahia, Brazil |
title_sort | composition and natural history notes of the coastal snake assemblage from northern bahia, brazil |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4992808/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27594800 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.611.9529 |
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