Herpetological biodiversity of the Maranhão ecotone, Brazil

Abstract

Brazil has a great biological diversity, however transition areas still presents little representation in environmental research. The ecotone as the transition areas are known, present a large and varied wealth, housing a large amount of animals from adjacent areas. The present work was carried out in the year 2012 to 2015 in a transition area in the State of Maranhão, Brazil. During the monitoring of fauna were captured approximately 4000 individuals distributed 23 families and 76 species and morphospecies

Keywords

• check list. herpetology. transition area