Based on a review of literature related to the biological diversity of the inter-Andean
Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests of the Marañón valley (ISDTFM), located in the regions of …

Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species, published in 2014, was the
first catalogue of its kind and covered all living and fossil snakes described between 1758 …

We describe a new species of Epictia based on eight specimens from Nicaragua collected
and housed in the collection of the Natural History Museum Vienna for more than a century …

A checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of 35 localities situated in the northern Peruvian
dry forest valley of the Marañón River and its tributaries, containing 14 species of …

Blind snakes represent the most basal group of extant snakes and include fossorial species
with unusual skeletal traits. Despite their known phylogenetic position, little is known about …

An integrative taxonomic approach based on morphology, molecular analyses, and climatic
niche modeling was used to uncover cryptic diversity in the phyllodactylid gecko species …

Since the rearrangement of all leptotyphlopid species previously known as “Leptotyphlops”
in Adalsteinsson et al.(2009)'s paper, several taxa have remained untested regarding their …

The tropical Andes are known to be the richest and most diverse place on earth. This
mountainous region covers almost one third of the Peruvian territory, and its herpetofauna …

Abstract The Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests in Peru are well known for their bird and plant
diversity and endemicity, but little is known about the diversity of small mammals. We report …

The confusion between the Neotropical threadsnakes Epictia albifrons (Wagler) and Epictia
tenella (Klauber) has been ongoing for decades. The lost holotype of Stenostoma albifrons …