Amphibians and reptiles of the state of Durango, Mexico, with comparisons with adjoining states.

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Laboratorio de Zoología. División de Biología. Subdirección de Investigación y Posgrado. Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Zacapoaxtla. Carretera Acuaco Zacapoaxtla Km. 8, Col. Totoltepec, Zacapoaxtla, Puebla 73680, México.

Published: April 2018

A summary of the species of amphibians and reptiles of Durango, as well as their geographic distributions, habitat, and conservation status have been compiled. The herpetofauna of Durango consists of 36 species of amphibians and 120 species of reptiles. Durango shares the most species with Chihuahua (74.0%), and shares fewer species with Sinaloa (48.0%), Nayarit (48.7%), and Coahuila (48.0%). Arid-semiarid and Sierras habitat types have the most species, with valleys and Quebradas habitat types having fewer species. In Durango, there are several taxa of particular conservation concern including eleutherodactylid frogs, eublepharid, iguanid, phrynosomatid, and xantusid lizards, boid, colubrid, and natricid snakes, and emydid and testudinid turtles.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5904398PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.748.22768DOI Listing

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