Atlas of Brazilian snakes: verified point-locality maps to mitigate the Wallacean shortfall in a megadiverse snake fauna

CC Nogueira, AJS Argôlo, V Arzamendia… - South American Journal …, 2019 - BioOne
Accurate and detailed species distribution maps are fundamental for documenting and
interpreting biological diversity. For snakes, an ecologically diverse group of reptiles …

[图书][B] Handbook of venoms and toxins of reptiles

SP Mackessy - 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
The Handbook of Venoms and Toxins of Reptiles offers" one-stop shopping" to all biologists,
biochemists, toxicologists, physicians, clinicians, and epidemiologists, and informed …

Anurans as prey: an exploratory analysis and size relationships between predators and their prey

LF Toledo, RS Ribeiro, CFB Haddad - Journal of Zoology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The vertebrate predators of post‐metamorphic anurans were quantified and the predator–
prey relationship was investigated by analysing the relative size of invertebrate predators …

[HTML][HTML] Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil

TB Guedes, C Nogueira, OAV Marques - Zootaxa, 2014 - biotaxa.org
The present study is a synthesis on snake diversity and distribution in the Caatinga region of
northeastern Brazil, providing an updated species list and data on natural history and …

[HTML][HTML] Bothrops atrox, the most important snake involved in human envenomings in the amazon: How venomics contributes to the knowledge of snake biology and …

WM Monteiro, JC Contreras-Bernal, PF Bisneto… - Toxicon: X, 2020 - Elsevier
Bothrops atrox snakes are mostly endemic of the Amazon rainforest and is certainly the
South American pit viper responsible for most of the snakebites in the region. The …

Phylogeny and ecology determine morphological structure in a snake assemblage in the Central Brazilian Cerrado

FGR França, DO Mesquita, CC Nogueira… - Copeia, 2008 - meridian.allenpress.com
To investigate the role of ecological and historical factors in the organization of communities,
we describe the ecomorphological structure of an assemblage of snakes (61 species in six …

Natural history of the terciopelo Bothrops asper (Serpentes: Viperidae) in Costa Rica

M Sasa, DK Wasko, WW Lamar - Toxicon, 2009 - Elsevier
The terciopelo Bothrops asper is the only lancehead species widely distributed in the humid
lowlands of Middle America and northwestern South America. Its large body size, relative …

[HTML][HTML] Composition and natural history of a Cerrado snake assemblage at Itirapina, São Paulo state, southeastern Brazil

RJ Sawaya, OAV Marques, M Martins - Biota neotropica, 2008 - SciELO Brasil
Neotropical snake assemblages present high species richness and complex structures. The
Cerrado is the second largest biome in Brazil, and was included among the 25 World's …

[HTML][HTML] Composição e história natural das serpentes de Cerrado de Itirapina, São Paulo, sudeste do Brasil

RJ Sawaya, OAV Marques, M Martins - Biota Neotropica, 2008 - SciELO Brasil
As taxocenoses de serpentes neotropicais apresentam alta riqueza de espécies e
estruturas complexas. O Cerrado é o segundo maior bioma do Brasil e foi incluído entre os …

[HTML][HTML] Proteopeptidomic, Functional and Immunoreactivity Characterization of Bothrops moojeni Snake Venom: Influence of Snake Gender on Venom Composition

FG Amorim, TR Costa, D Baiwir, E De Pauw, L Quinton… - Toxins, 2018 - mdpi.com
Venom composition varies across snakes from all taxonomic levels and is influenced by the
snakes' age, habitat, diet, and sexual dimorphism. The present study reports the first in …