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First record of the rare snake Cercophis auratus (Schlegel, 1837) (Serpentes: C...
Bezerra, Castiele Holanda; Guilhon, Bruno Ferreira; Ramos, Antônio Rafael Lima; Nojosa, Diva Maria BorgesCercophis auratus is a rare snake with known disjunct distribution between coastal Atlantic Forest to eastern Amazonia and Guiana Shield. Here we provide a new record of this species from a relictual highland of rainforest inside the xeric Caatinga ecoregion. This new record fill a gap of 1700 kilometers between southern (Barra do Choça – BA) and northern (Augusto Corrêa – PA) in the distribution of C. auratus ...
Caracterização histológica da glândula de Duvernoy da serpente Philodryas natte...
Santiago, Fred Ribeiro; Xavier Júnior, Francisco Antônio Félix; Carvalho, Isadora Oliveira de; Braga, Roberta da Rocha; Morais, Glayciane Bezerra dePhilodryas nattereriis a snake known popularly as field-runner or board, founded in regions of caatinga and in the Brazilian semiarid region. These snakes have a well-developed Duvernoy gland, connected to a grooved tooth, specialized for toxin inoculation. The work aimed to perform the histological characterization of the Duvernoy gland of the P. nattererisnake. For the study, four pairs of animal glands from ...
Anuran diversity indicates that Caatinga relictual Neotropical forests are more...
Castro, Deborah P; Rodrigues, João Fabrício M; Leite, Maria Juliana Borges; Lima, Daniel Cassiano; Nojosa, Diva Maria BorgesThe relationships among the morphoclimatic domains of South America have been a major biogeographical issue of recent years. Palynological, geological and phytogeographical data suggest that the Amazon Forest and the Atlantic Forest were connected during part of the Tertiary and Quaternary periods. This study uses amphibians as model organisms to investigate whether relict northeastern forests are a transition ...
Formal education, previous interaction and perception influence the attitudes o...
Pinheiro, Luan Tavares; Rodrigues, João Fabrício Mota; Nojosa, Diva Maria BorgesThe attitudes and perceptions of people toward animals are influenced by sociodemographic factors, such as formal education and gender, and by personal experience. Understanding these interactions is critical for the establishment of conservation strategies for animals that have conflictual relationships with humans, such as snakes. Our study aims to explain how perceptions and the human fear of snakes vary and...
A new species of lizard Placosoma Tschudi, 1847 (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) fr...
Nojosa, Diva Maria Borges; Caramaschi, Ulisses; Rodrigues, Miguel TrefautA new species of Placosoma Tschudi, 1847, until now restricted to the Atlantic Forest areas of southeastern Brazil is described based on specimens obtained about 1700 km north to the current distribution of the genus. Placosoma limaverdorum spec. nov. is apparently endemic to three “brejos-de-altitude”, relictual forest mountains surrounded by dry Caatingas, in the State of Ceará, northeastern Brazil. It differ...
Topographic anatomy and sexual dimorphism of Bothrops erythromelas AMARAL, 1923...
Gondim, Patrícia de Menezes; Rodrigues, João Fabrício Mota; Leite, Maria Juliana Borges; Nojosa, Diva Maria Borgesinformation on the internal anatomy of brazilian serpents is scarce. Bothrops erythromelas AMArAl, 1923, native to the northeast brazilian ecoregion called Caatinga, is also poorly known with regard to its biology. this study aimed to investigate the topographic anatomy and sexual dimorphism in B. erythromelas. the position of internal organs was characterized by the numbers of the ventral scales where they beg...
Does climate influence assemblages of anurans and lizards in a coastal area of ...
Rodrigues, João Fabrício Mota; Leite, Maria Juliana Borges; Nojosa, Diva Maria BorgesEnvironmental factors influence diverse assemblage features such as species abundances, richness, and nestedness. Amphibians and reptiles play important roles in terrestrial ecosystems, but there is still a lack of information about the assemblages of these animals in many regions. In this study, we aimed to understand how environmental factors influence the anurans and lizards assemblages from São Gonçalo do A...
Veneno de Bothrops erythromelas ( Amaral, 1923 ) induz apoptose em células epit...
Sousa, Fabíola Carine Monteiro de; Jorge, Antônio Rafael Coelho; Menezes, Ramon Róseo Paula Pessoa Bezerra de; Torres, Alba Fabíola CostaBothrops erythromelas is responsible for a large number of snakebite incidents in Northeastern Brazil. Previously, we showed the effects of whole B. erythromelas venom in an isolated kidney model. To continue the study with B. erythromelas venom, the present work aims to study the effects of this venom on MDCK tubular epithelial cells and assess gene expression involved in kidney injury, aiming at elucidating t...
The advertisement call of Adelophryne maranguapensis (Anura, Eleutherodactylidae)
Lima, Daniel Cassiano; Nojosa, Diva Maria Borges; Cechin, Sonia ZaniniWe describe the advertisement call of A. maranguapensis an endangered species endemic to Serra de Maranguape, Ceará, northeastern Brazil (Cassiano-Lima et al., 2011). The monophyletic genus Adelophryne includes eight nominal species and a number of unnamed species of small frogs with direct development, which occur in Amazon, Atlantic Forest, and humid forested mountains of Northeast Brazil (Fouquet et al. 2012...
Prevalence and Diversity of Hepatozoon in Native and Exotic Geckos from Brazil
Harris, David James; Nojosa, Diva Maria Borges; Maia, João PedroHepatozoon is a genus of hemogregarines constituting the most widespread and common reptile hemoparasite. Although various molecular assessments of these parasites have been conducted in lizards from Africa and Europe, similar studies are needed for South American lizards. Through amplification and sequencing of fragments of the 18S rRNA gene, we assess the prevalence of Hepatozoon parasites in 230 geckos from ...