Reptiles, Squamata, Parque Natural Municipal da Taquara, municipality of Duque de Caxias, state of Rio de Janeiro, Southeastern Brazil

Herein we report a list of the reptiles from Parque Natural Municipal da Taquara, municipality of Duque de Caxias, state of Rio de Janeiro, southeastern Brazil, an area situated in the Atlantic Rainforest Domain. The study was carried out from September 2006 to October 2008. We recorded 31 species of Squamate reptiles: one species of the family Amphisbaenidae; eight species of lizards of the families Anguidae (n = 1), Gekkonidae (1), Phyllodactylidae (1), Polychrotidae (1), Scincidae (1), Teiidae (2), and Tropiduridae (1); and 22 species of snakes of the families Boidae (2), Colubridae (6), Dipsadidae (11), Elapidae (1), and Viperidae (2). Our study indicates that the PNMT is an important area for the conservation of the Squamate reptile assemblages that inhabit lowlands of Atlantic Rainforest in Brazil.

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Diet and helminths of Enyalius brasiliensis (Lacertilia, Iguania, Leiosauridae) in an Atlantic Rainforest remnant in southeastern Brazil

Brazilian Journal of Biology ◽

10.1590/1519-6984.07612 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 74 (1) ◽

pp. 199-204 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

TA Dorigo ◽

T Maia-Carneiro ◽

M Almeida-Gomes ◽

CC Siqueira ◽

D Vrcibradic ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Rio De Janeiro ◽

The State ◽

Atlantic Rainforest ◽

Southeastern Brazil ◽

Helminth Parasites

Our study aimed to add information about the diet and endoparasites of Enyalius brasiliensis from an Atlantic Rainforest remnant in the state of Rio de Janeiro, southeastern Brazil. Regarding diet, E. brasiliensis consumed arthropods, with caterpillars and beetles being the most important preys. Regarding helminth parasites, overall prevalence was low (9.5%), with 238 nematodes of the genus Physaloptera found in the stomach of one specimen and one nematode of the genus Rhabdias inside the lung of another. Our results corroborate the observations of previous studies that indicate that lizards of the genus Enyalius tend to feed mainly on relatively large-bodied arthropods and to harbour depauperate endoparasite fauna.

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Amphibia, Anura, Parque Natural Municipal da Taquara, municipality of Duque de Caxias, state of Rio de Janeiro, southeastern Brazil

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10.15560/5.4.840 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 5 (4) ◽

pp. 840 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Rodrigo De Oliveira Lula Salles ◽

Luiz Norberto Weber ◽

Thiago Silva-Soares

Keyword(s):

Rio De Janeiro ◽

Atlantic Rainforest ◽

Southeastern Brazil ◽

Conservation Area ◽

Anuran Amphibians ◽

Amphibian Communities

Herein is presented a list of the amphibians from the Parque Natural Municipal da Taquara (22°35'S, 43°14'W), an area of Atlantic Rainforest at municipality of Duque de Caxias, state of Rio de Janeiro, southeastern Brazil. The work was carried out from September 2006 to October 2008. Expeditions were made three times a week during the day, and once a month at night. We recorded 50 species of anuran amphibians distributed in 13 families: Amphignathodontidae (1 species), Brachycephalidae (2), Bufonidae (2), Centrolenidae (1), Craugastoridae (1), Cycloramphidae (3), Hylidae (29), Hylodidae (3), Leiuperidae (1), Leptodactylidae (4), Microhylidae (1), Strabomantidae (1), and Ranidae (1). Some species had their range extended. The present study demonstrates that the Parque Natural Municipal da Taquara is a conservation area of huge importance to the preservation of the amphibian communities that inhabit this Atlantic Rainforest lowland environment.

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Two new species of Dilobopterus Signoret, 1850 and the male of D. segmentalis (Signoret, 1853) from Southeastern Brazil, with taxonomic notes on the genus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellini)

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4281.1.13 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4281 (1) ◽

pp. 127

Author(s):

VICTOR QUINTAS ◽

MÁRCIO FELIX ◽

DOUGLAS FELIPE DOS SANTOS LIMA ◽

GABRIEL MEJDALANI

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Rio De Janeiro ◽

New World ◽

Atlantic Rainforest ◽

Southeastern Brazil ◽

Espírito Santo ◽

Two New Species ◽

Espirito Santo ◽

Janeiro State ◽

Unknown Male

Two new species of Dilobopterus Signoret, 1850 are described from the Atlantic Rainforest of Rio de Janeiro State, Southeastern Brazil, based on specimens collected in Angra dos Reis (D. nelsoni sp. nov.) and Itatiaia (D. sakakibara sp. nov.). Holotypes are deposited in Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. These are the first species of the genus described after the publication in 1977 of the last comprehensive monograph on the New World Cicadellini. We also describe the previously unknown male of D. segmentalis (Signoret, 1853) based on specimens from the Atlantic Rainforest of Espírito Santo State, Southeastern Brazil (municipality of Santa Teresa). We propose a group of species within Dilobopterus (trinotatus group) based on features of the paraphyses of D. trinotatus (Signoret, 1853), D. segmentalis, and D. sakakibara sp. nov..

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A new species of Mimosa (Leguminosae) from Brazil

Phytotaxa ◽

10.11646/phytotaxa.184.3.2 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 184 (3) ◽

pp. 131 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Lucas Sá Barreto Jordão ◽

Marli Pires Morim ◽

José Fernando Andrade Baumgratz

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Rio De Janeiro ◽

Conservation Status ◽

Minas Gerais ◽

Sao Paulo ◽

Atlantic Rainforest ◽

Southeastern Brazil ◽

New Type ◽

A New Species ◽

Iucn Criteria

A new species of Mimosa is described from the Atlantic Rainforest and ecotone with the Cerrado of southeastern Brazil, in the states of Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo: M. porrecta L. Jordão, M.P. Morim & Baumgratz (Leguminosae). Related to M. sensitiva, it shares morphological affinities with this species but differs in having porrect-stellate trichomes, a new type of trichome for the genus, on the stems, and the dendritic trichomes in the fruits. The conservation status was assessed, according to IUCN criteria, as Least Concern.

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Rediscovery of Lonchophylla bokermanni Sazima, Vizotto and Taddei, 1978 (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae: Lonchophyllinae) in Minas Gerais, and new records for Espírito Santo, southeastern Brazil

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10.15560/9.5.1046 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 9 (5) ◽

pp. 1046 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Maria Clara do Nascimento ◽

Leonardo Henrique Dias ◽

Renato Gregorin ◽

Gisele Lessa

Keyword(s):

Rio De Janeiro ◽

New Records ◽

Minas Gerais ◽

Type Locality ◽

Atlantic Rainforest ◽

Southeastern Brazil ◽

Espírito Santo ◽

New Localities ◽

Espirito Santo ◽

Range Of Values

We report the rediscovery of Lonchophylla bokermanni – a species threatened by extinction in Brazil – in Minas Gerais after 25 years (where it was known only from the type-locality), and add three new localities from Espírito Santo, southeastern Brazil. The external and craniodental measurements of the additional specimens fall within the expected range of values for L. bokermanni, although specimens from the Atlantic Rainforest (Rio de Janeiro and Espírito Santo) show a tendency to be smaller.

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Tadpole of the hylid frog Bokermannohyla gouveai (Peixoto & Cruz, 1992)

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.2418.1.3 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 2418 (1) ◽

pp. 61 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

PAULO NOGUEIRA COSTA ◽

ANA CAROLINA CALIJORNE LOURENÇO ◽

PATRICIA ALMEIDA-SANTOS ◽

MONIQUE VAN SLUYS

Keyword(s):

Atlantic Forest ◽

Rio De Janeiro ◽

Minas Gerais ◽

Atlantic Rainforest ◽

Southeastern Brazil ◽

Mountain Stream ◽

Posterior Surface ◽

Parque Nacional Do Itatiaia ◽

Species Groups ◽

Taxonomic Studies

The genus Bokermannohyla Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell & Wheeler, 2005 currently comprises 29 species that are distributed in the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado biomes of Brazil (Faivovich et al. 2009; Frost 2010; Napoli & Pimenta 2009). This genus has recently been erected to accommodate the former Hyla circumdata, Hyla claresignata, Hyla martinsi, and Hyla pseudopseudis species groups (Faivovich et al. 2005). The Bokermannohyla circumdata group is composed by seventeen species (Table 1), all occurring mainly in mountain stream habitats in the Atlantic Rainforest, being the dark vertical stripes on the posterior surface of the thigh a putative morphological synapomorphy of this group (Heyer 1985). Despite the importance of larval characters for phylogenetic and taxonomic studies (e.g. Haas 2003), tadpoles of only seven species are formally described for this group (Table 1). Herein we describe the tadpole of B. gouveai known only from habitats above 1800 m (IUCN, 2010) in the Parque Nacional do Itatiaia, States of Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil.

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Spatial use of rodents (Rodentia: Mammalia) host body surface by ectoparasites

Brazilian Journal of Biology ◽

10.1590/s1519-69842002000300004 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 62 (3) ◽

pp. 419-425 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

E. B. BITTENCOURT ◽

C. F. D. ROCHA

Keyword(s):

Body Surface ◽

Small Mammal ◽

Rio De Janeiro ◽

Atlantic Rainforest ◽

Southeastern Brazil ◽

Mammal Species ◽

Host Body ◽

Spatial Use ◽

Small Mammal Species ◽

Janeiro State

We studied the ectoparasite and the Amblyopinini beetle fauna associated with four small mammal species of the Atlantic Rainforest of Ilha Grande, an island located off the southern Rio de Janeiro State Coast, Southeastern Brazil, analyzing to what extent the parasites were specific to each region of the host body. During the study, a total of 90 individual rodents were captured: 61 Proechimys iheringi Thomas, 1911 (Echymyidae), 22 Sciurus aestuans (Thomas, 1901) (Sciuridae), 4 Oxymycterus sp. (Waterhouse, 1837), and 2 Nectomys squamipes (Brants, 1827) (Sigmodontinae). The data showed that the ectoparasites and Amblyopinini on some rodent hosts in Ilha Grande tend to prefer particular host body sites, and that some ectoparasite species sites may overlap owing to their inaccessibility to the host.

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First record of Gymnosiphon tenellus (Benth.) Urb. (Burmanniaceae) in Paraná state and southern Brazil

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10.15560/15.5.863 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 15 (5) ◽

pp. 863-866

Author(s):

Inti de Souza ◽

Christopher Thomas Blum ◽

Marcelo Leandro Brotto

Keyword(s):

Central America ◽

Rio De Janeiro ◽

First Record ◽

The State ◽

Atlantic Rainforest ◽

Southeastern Brazil ◽

Southern Brazil ◽

Amazonian Rainforest ◽

First Time

Gymnosiphon tenellus (Bentham) Urban is recorded for the first time in the state of Paraná and in southern Brazil. Until now it has only been known to occur in Central America, the Amazonian Rainforest, and in the Atlantic Rainforest of the state of Rio de Janeiro in southeastern Brazil. An updated description is provided, along with original, detailed pictures of the species.

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Amphibia, Anura, Parque Estadual do Cunhambebe, Itaguaí municipality, Rio de Janeiro state

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10.15560/8.6.1047 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 8 (6) ◽

pp. 1047

Author(s):

Daiane Ouvernay ◽

Luiz Marcelo de Salles Cunha Fiuza ◽

Thiago Rodrigues Barbosa ◽

Ivai Gomes de Lima Cesar de Albuquerque ◽

Alexandre Fernandes Bamberg De Araujo

Keyword(s):

Rio De Janeiro ◽

Atlantic Rainforest ◽

Southeastern Brazil ◽

Anuran Amphibians ◽

Janeiro State

We report a list of the amphibians from the Parque Estadual do Cunhambebe (22°54’07” S, 43°53’33” W) in Itaguaí municipality, an area of Atlantic Rainforest in Rio de Janeiro State, southeastern Brazil. The work was carried out from January to November 2010. We recorded 28 species of anuran amphibians distributed in eight families: Brachycephalidae (3), Bufonidae (2), Craugastoridae (1), Cycloramphidae (2), Hylidae (13), Hylodidae (2), Leiuperidae (1) and Leptodactylidae (4). Adding the species recorded in the Parque Estadual do Cunhambebe in Mangaratiba municipality, the richness of amphibians in the park currently is now 47 species.

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Snakes from the Atlantic Rainforest area of Serra do Mendanha, in Rio de Janeiro state, southeastern Brazil: a first approximation to the taxocenosis composition

Brazilian Journal of Biology ◽

10.1590/s1519-69842008000300018 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 68 (3) ◽

pp. 601-608 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

JAL. Pontes ◽

JP. Figueiredo ◽

RC. Pontes ◽

CFD. Rocha

Keyword(s):

Rio De Janeiro ◽

Secondary Forest ◽

Southeastern Brazil ◽

Pitfall Traps ◽

Voucher Specimen ◽

First Approximation ◽

The Family ◽

Undisturbed Forest ◽

Combination Of Methods ◽

Janeiro State

We studied the species composition of the snake community of Serra do Mendanha, in Rio de Janeiro state, Southeastern Brazil, with an effort of 800 hours/man in different habitats, including undisturbed forest, secondary forest, areas under regeneration, and banana plantation. We sampled snakes monthly in the area using a combination of methods including intensive visual searching and pitfall traps with drift-fences. We found a total of 191 individuals of 27 snake species, belonging to four families: Boidae, Colubridae, Elapidae and Viperidae. In terms of species richness, the most speciose snake family in the area was Colubridae (85.2%; n = 23), followed by Viperidae (7.4%; n = 2), Boidae (3.7%; n = 1) and Elapidae (3.7%; n = 1) (Table 1). Quantitatively, the family Colubridae represented 81.7% (n = 156) of the total of individuals captured throughout the study, followed by Elapidae (13.1% of the individuals; n = 25), Viperidae (4.7%; n = 9) and Boidae (0.5%; n = 1). The data obtained in the study allowed a first approximation of the richness and composition of the snake fauna from Serra do Mendanha, including the records obtained during fieldwork in the present study and those of specimens deposited in Institutional Collections and detailed field data for each voucher specimen. All records are novel data for the area.

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