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Karyological Study of Amphisbaena Ridleyi (Squamata, Amphisbaenidae), an Endemic Species of the Archipelago of Fernando De Noronha, Pernambuco, Brazil
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by PubMed Central Genetics and Molecular Biology, 33, 1, 57-61 (2010) Copyright © 2009, Sociedade Brasileira de Genética. Printed in Brazil www.sbg.org.br Short Communication Karyological study of Amphisbaena ridleyi (Squamata, Amphisbaenidae), an endemic species of the Archipelago of Fernando de Noronha, Pernambuco, Brazil Marcia Maria Laguna1, Renata Cecília Amaro2, Tamí Mott3, Yatiyo Yonenaga-Yassuda1 and Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues2 1Departamento de Genética e Biologia Evolutiva, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. 2Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. 3Instituto de Biociências, Programa de Pós Graduação em Ecologia e Conservação da Biodiversidade, Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, MT, Brazil. Abstract The karyotype of Amphisbaena ridleyi, an endemic species of the archipelago of Fernando de Noronha, in State of Pernambuco, Brazil, is described after conventional staining, Ag-NOR impregnation and fluorescence in situ hybrid- ization (FISH) with a telomeric probe. The diploid number is 46, with nine pairs of macrochromosomes (three metacentrics, four subtelocentrics and two acrocentrics) and 14 pairs of microchromosomes. The Ag-NOR is located in the telomeric region of the long arm of metacentric chromosome 2 and FISH revealed signals only in the telomeric region of all chromosomes. Further cytogenetic data on other amphisbaenians as well as a robust phylogenetic hy- pothesis of this clade is needed in order to understand the evolutionary changes on amphisbaenian karyotypes. Key words: Amphisbaena ridleyi, karyotype, Fernando de Noronha, Ag-NOR, FISH with telomeric probes. -
Literature Cited in Lizards Natural History Database
Literature Cited in Lizards Natural History database Abdala, C. S., A. S. Quinteros, and R. E. Espinoza. 2008. Two new species of Liolaemus (Iguania: Liolaemidae) from the puna of northwestern Argentina. Herpetologica 64:458-471. Abdala, C. S., D. Baldo, R. A. Juárez, and R. E. Espinoza. 2016. The first parthenogenetic pleurodont Iguanian: a new all-female Liolaemus (Squamata: Liolaemidae) from western Argentina. Copeia 104:487-497. Abdala, C. S., J. C. Acosta, M. R. Cabrera, H. J. Villaviciencio, and J. Marinero. 2009. A new Andean Liolaemus of the L. montanus series (Squamata: Iguania: Liolaemidae) from western Argentina. South American Journal of Herpetology 4:91-102. Abdala, C. S., J. L. Acosta, J. C. Acosta, B. B. Alvarez, F. Arias, L. J. Avila, . S. M. Zalba. 2012. Categorización del estado de conservación de las lagartijas y anfisbenas de la República Argentina. Cuadernos de Herpetologia 26 (Suppl. 1):215-248. Abell, A. J. 1999. Male-female spacing patterns in the lizard, Sceloporus virgatus. Amphibia-Reptilia 20:185-194. Abts, M. L. 1987. Environment and variation in life history traits of the Chuckwalla, Sauromalus obesus. Ecological Monographs 57:215-232. Achaval, F., and A. Olmos. 2003. Anfibios y reptiles del Uruguay. Montevideo, Uruguay: Facultad de Ciencias. Achaval, F., and A. Olmos. 2007. Anfibio y reptiles del Uruguay, 3rd edn. Montevideo, Uruguay: Serie Fauna 1. Ackermann, T. 2006. Schreibers Glatkopfleguan Leiocephalus schreibersii. Munich, Germany: Natur und Tier. Ackley, J. W., P. J. Muelleman, R. E. Carter, R. W. Henderson, and R. Powell. 2009. A rapid assessment of herpetofaunal diversity in variously altered habitats on Dominica. -
Une Nouvelle Espèce Du Genre Cynisca Gray, 1844 (Squamata, Amphisbaenidae) De La République De Côte D’Ivoire Par Jean-François Trape & Youssouph Mané
Bull. Soc. Herp. Fr. (2014) 152 : 37-44 Une nouvelle espèce du genre Cynisca Gray, 1844 (Squamata, Amphisbaenidae) de la République de Côte d’Ivoire par Jean-François TRAPE & Youssouph MANÉ Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Laboratoire de Paludologie et Zoologie médicale, B.P. 1386, Dakar, Sénégal [email protected] Résumé – Un amphisbène nouveau du genre Cynisca Gray, 1844, est décrit de Gaboua (07°02’N, 06°28’W) dans le centre de la Côte d’Ivoire, en zone de savane guinéenne. Cette espèce se distingue de toutes les autres espèces du genre par la combinaison des caractères suivants : frontale, oculaire, tem- porale et occipitale distinctes, fusion des supralabiales antérieures avec la nasale et la préfrontale, fusion de la post-frontale avec la pariétale, présence de trois supralabiales postérieures et de deux tem- porales, 10 ou 12 segments dorsaux, huit segments ventraux et six pores cloacaux. Mots-clés : Amphisbaenia, Amphisbaenidae, Afrique occidentale, République de Côte d’Ivoire, Cynis- ca ivoirensis sp. nov. Summary – A new species of the genus Cynisca Gray, 1844 (Squamata, Amphisbaenidae) from Ivory Coast. A new amphisbenid of the genus Cynisca is described from Gaboua (07°02’N, 06°28’W) in the Guinean savanna of central Ivory Coast Republic. This species is distinguished from all other members of the genus by a combination of the following characters: frontal, ocular, temporal and occipital distinct, anterior supralabials, nasal and prefrontal fused, post-frontal and parietal fused, three posterior supralabials and two temporals, 10 or 12 dorsal segments, eight ventral segments, and six cloacal pores. -
Patterns of Species Richness, Endemism and Environmental Gradients of African Reptiles
Journal of Biogeography (J. Biogeogr.) (2016) ORIGINAL Patterns of species richness, endemism ARTICLE and environmental gradients of African reptiles Amir Lewin1*, Anat Feldman1, Aaron M. Bauer2, Jonathan Belmaker1, Donald G. Broadley3†, Laurent Chirio4, Yuval Itescu1, Matthew LeBreton5, Erez Maza1, Danny Meirte6, Zoltan T. Nagy7, Maria Novosolov1, Uri Roll8, 1 9 1 1 Oliver Tallowin , Jean-Francßois Trape , Enav Vidan and Shai Meiri 1Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, ABSTRACT 6997801 Tel Aviv, Israel, 2Department of Aim To map and assess the richness patterns of reptiles (and included groups: Biology, Villanova University, Villanova PA 3 amphisbaenians, crocodiles, lizards, snakes and turtles) in Africa, quantify the 19085, USA, Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe, PO Box 240, Bulawayo, overlap in species richness of reptiles (and included groups) with the other ter- Zimbabwe, 4Museum National d’Histoire restrial vertebrate classes, investigate the environmental correlates underlying Naturelle, Department Systematique et these patterns, and evaluate the role of range size on richness patterns. Evolution (Reptiles), ISYEB (Institut Location Africa. Systematique, Evolution, Biodiversite, UMR 7205 CNRS/EPHE/MNHN), Paris, France, Methods We assembled a data set of distributions of all African reptile spe- 5Mosaic, (Environment, Health, Data, cies. We tested the spatial congruence of reptile richness with that of amphib- Technology), BP 35322 Yaounde, Cameroon, ians, birds and mammals. We further tested the relative importance of 6Department of African Biology, Royal temperature, precipitation, elevation range and net primary productivity for Museum for Central Africa, 3080 Tervuren, species richness over two spatial scales (ecoregions and 1° grids). We arranged Belgium, 7Royal Belgian Institute of Natural reptile and vertebrate groups into range-size quartiles in order to evaluate the Sciences, OD Taxonomy and Phylogeny, role of range size in producing richness patterns. -
Phylogeny and Evolution of Head Shape in Amphisbaenia
Roberta Graboski Mendes Phylogeny and evolution of head shape in Amphisbaenia (Reptilia: Squamata). 37 20 57 29 59 18 30 55 52 16 32 45 22 39 54 25 27 53 51 14 23 43 56 26 15 24 41 60 21 31 35 58 17 28 19 Amphisbaena unilepida sp a r Amphisbaena frontalis i l Amphisbaena hetero l Amphisbaena ibija e Amphisbaena t i i h r Amphisbaena heathi r Amphisbaena darwinii ingoe ia c r r t i Amphisbaena p is Amphisbaena A m r ulu Amphisbaena angustifrons a n r e Amphisbaena dubia a anomala micula a r b e s v i r Amphisbaena anaema achu h aoh r p a Amphisbaena hogei z r m r r m u unicolor onata a m unoai A r Amphisbaena caia Amphisbaena sp Goias Amphisbaena me Anops kingii a Amphisbaena leese Amphisbaena ignatiana Amphisbaena arena Bronia bedai Bronia k rtensii Amphisbaena c Bronia saxosa Amphisbaena Amphisbaena mensae Amphisbaena pretrei ia Amphisbaena leucocephala ar zolinii v ri Cercolophia cuiabana r Amphisbaena alba an Cercolophia steindachne iae Amphisbaena ca v Amphisbaena supe r Amphisbaena bolivica isae Amphisbaena me Amphisbaena cunhai Amphisbaena Amphisbaena hastata rnume Amphisbaena fuliginosa ri Amphisbaena fuliginosa bassle Cercolophia bahianararia Amphisbaena fuliginosaridleyi wiedi Amphisbaena ur Amphisbaena innocens Amphisbaena Amphisbaena sp Ilheusoxena Anops bilabialatus rasiliana Leposternon microcephalum Bronia b Bronia cf brasiliana Leposternon infraorbitalae Bronia cf brasiliana1 ri Psammodro Leposternon wuchere mus algirus rum Nucras sp Leposternon scutige Podarcis bocagei non polystegum Takydro r m Leposte era Lace us ocellatus -
Herpetology in Ghana (West Africa) Barry Hughes J.R
British Herpetological Society Bullctm, No. 25, 1988 HERPETOLOGY IN GHANA (WEST AFRICA) BARRY HUGHES J.R. Simpson, 26 Greenheys Drive, London E18 2HB Take flights from London, follow the Greenwich meridian south for 3,000 miles, and six hours later you can be in Accra, capital of Ghana. Formerly known as the Gold Coast and bounded on the north, west and east, respectively, by francophone Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire and Togo, Ghana became an independent member of the Commonwealth in 1957. At 92 100 square miles (228 538 km2) it is a country about the size of Great Britain (ie UK less Ireland) but with a fifth the number of fellow humans and a tropical herpetofauna of 220 species: 70 amphibians, 14 turtles, 41 lizards, 92 snakes and 3 crocodilians. As the Gold Coast Colony, Ghana was once notorious as "the White Man's grave" — life expectancy for the newly-arrived "oburoni" (Twi for white man) being counted in months rather than years. More recently the first African country to gain indpendence after the Second World War, Ghana's flamboyant first president, Kwame Nkrumah, has ensured himself and Ghana being well known by his precipitant political actions, such as deporting unwelcome critics. But with smallpox extinct, yellow fever unheard of and cholera about as common as in the UK, life expectancy for the visitor has improved: I survived 26 years and suffered nothing worse than malaria and an odd boil or two, and the occupational hazard of snake bite! Harder economic times have brought political pragmatism, but the good cheer, friendliness and politeness, not to say respectability of Ghanaians has survived all. -
The Ear in Amphisbaenia (Reptilia) ;Further Anatomical Observations
J. Zool., Lond. (1973) 171, 189-206 The ear in Amphisbaenia (Reptilia) ;further anatomical observations ERNESTGLEN WEVER Auditory Research Laboratories, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey AND CARLGANS Department of Zoology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (Accepted 8 May, 1973) (With 4 plates and 7 figures in the text) The anatomy of the ear, and especially of the sound-receptive and conductive system, was studied in nine species of amphisbaenians. In all species a region of skin is used as the sound-receptive surface, and the vibrations are transmitted along a columellar apparatus consisting of cartilage and bone that expands to form a footplate in the oval window of the cochlea. In all species but one the receptive skin area is on the face; in the form Bipes biporus it is in the region of the neck constriction. The structures of the inner ear present a fairly uniform pattern, except for species varia- tions of nearly four-fold in the size of the hair-cell population. The amphisbaenian extra- columella is shown to be an epihyal and not homologous to the structure of the same name in lizards. Contents Page Introduction .. ...... .. .. .... .... 189 Specimensandmethod ...... .. .. .... .... 190 Results .... ...... .. .. .... .... 191 Generalanatomy ...... .. .. .... .... 191 Form and position of the columella . .. .. .... .... 192 The columellar shaft and its connections .. .. .... .... 193 Course of the extracolumella . .. .. .. .... .. 194 Theinner ear ...... .. .. .. .... .... 197 Discussion .......... .. . -
Mako Gold Project Environmental Impact Assessment
Chapter 9 | Biological Impacts and Management Measures Chapter 7 | Biological Setting Mako Gold Project Environmental Impact Assessment Chapter 7 | Biological Setting 7 BIOLOGICAL SETTING ............................................................................................... 7-3 7.1 Methods and Study Areas ..................................................................................................................................... 7-3 7.2 Terrestrial Biodiversity ............................................................................................................................................ 7-6 7.2.1 Niokolo-Koba National Park ................................................................................................................... 7-6 7.2.2 Other Protected Areas ............................................................................................................................. 7-7 7.2.3 Habitat and Flora ....................................................................................................................................... 7-7 7.2.4 Large Mammals ........................................................................................................................................ 7-20 7.2.5 Chimpanzees ............................................................................................................................................. 7-28 7.2.6 Birds ............................................................................................................................................................. -
(Ampisbania,Reptlia .~~~O Th ~~'American Museum of Natural History~~~~~~~~~~~~ Voum 13:Atce2 E Ok16
141. Al (AMPISBANIA,REPTLIA .~~~O TH ~~'AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY~~~~~~~~~~~~ VOUM 13:ATCE2 E OK16 A CHECK LIST OF RECENT AMPHISBAENIANS (AMPHISBAENIA, REPTILIA) CARL GANS Research Associate, Department of Herpetology The American Museum of Natural History Professor of Biology State University of New York at Buffalo BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY VOLUME 135 : ARTICLE 2 NEW YORK 1967 BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Volume 135, article 2, pages 61-106 Issued February 20, 1967 Price: $1.50 a copy INTRODUCTION THE AMPHISBAENIA are an excellent demon- contains a remarkably useful section of gen- stration of the futility of the classical, or eric synonyms. typological, species concept. Parallelism and The present check list forms an interim convergence, caused by the strong selec- summary in a program of re-evaluation that tive pressures on the cephalic scutellation, may ultimately result in a monograph of the together with the limited number of external group. Emphasis has been placed on a com- characteristics available to the taxonomist, plete listing of described forms and syn- have provided unusual opportunities for con- onyms, rather than on a review of their ge- fusion. The difficulties are compounded by neric status. In view of my continuing interest the extremely restricted ranges inhabited by in the group, I shall appreciate comments many species, and by the seemingly disjunct and corrections. distribution of more wide-ranging forms. The subterranean mode of life keeps these ani- GENERAL APPROACH mals out of the way of the casual collector. The review of the amphisbaenians of which In consequence they have been scarce in col- this paper forms a part has been designed as a lections, and many species have been inad- basis for additional studies of their system- equately described, often on the basis of atics, morphology, physiology, and behavior. -
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Checklist of the lizards of Togo (West Africa), with comments on systematics, distribution, ecology, and conservation Gabriel HOINSOUDE SEGNIAGBETO Département de Zoologie et Biologie animale, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Lomé, BP 1515, Lomé (Togo) [email protected] Jean-François TRAPE Laboratoire de Paludologie et Zoologie médicale, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Centre de Dakar, BP 1386, Dakar (Sénégal) [email protected] Komlan M. AFIADEMANYO Département de Zoologie et Biologie animale, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Lomé, BP 1515, Lomé (Togo) [email protected] Mark-Oliver RÖDEL Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin (Germany) [email protected] Annemarie OHLER Alain DUBOIS Patrick DAVID Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB – UMR 7205 – CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, Département de Systématique & Évolution, case postale 30, 57 rue Cuvier, F-75005 Paris (France) [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Danny MEIRTE Royal Museum for Central Africa, Department of African Zoology, Vertebrate Section, Leuvensesteenweg 13, 3080 Tervuren (Belgium) [email protected] Isabelle Adolé GLITHO Département de Zoologie et Biologie animale, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Lomé, BP 1515, Lomé (Togo) Fabio PETROZZI Luca LUISELLI Niger Delta Ecology and Biodiversity Conservation Unit, Department of Applied and Environmental Biology, Rivers State University of Science and Tecnology PMB 5080, Port Harcourt, Rivers State (Nigeria) [email protected], [email protected] Published on 26 June 2015 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B6713FC6-B1CD-4E20-BF33-EF174CB77317 Hoinsoude Segniagbeto G., Trape J.-F., Afi ademanyo K. -
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CBG Mine Expansion Project: Annexes – Chapter 4 4 ANNEXES - CHAPTER 4 Annexe 4-3 Details on important species A4-1 CBG Mine Expansion Project: Annexes – Chapter 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS 4 ANNEXES - CHAPTER 4 ................................................ 4-1 4.3 Details on important species ........................................................ 4-4 4.3.1 Hemidactylus kundaensis ........................................................... 4-4 4.3.2 Eretmochelys imbricata .............................................................. 4-6 4.3.3 Cynisca cf oligopholis ................................................................. 4-8 4.3.4 Phrynobatrachus pintoi ............................................................ 4-10 4.3.5 Pan troglodytes verus .............................................................. 4-12 4.3.6 Procolobus badius (ssp badius or temminckii) ............................. 4-14 4.3.7 Epinephelus guaza (= marginatus) ............................................ 4-16 4.3.8 Rhinobatos cemiculus (= Glaucostegus cemiculus) ....................... 4-18 4.3.9 Epiplatys njalaensis ................................................................. 4-20 4.3.10 Nimbapanchax jeanpoli (= Archiaphyosemion jeanpoli) ................ 4-22 4.3.11 Necrosyrtes monachus ............................................................ 4-24 4.3.12 Gyps africanus ....................................................................... 4-26 4.3.13 Gyps rueppellii ....................................................................... 4-28 4.3.14 -
Amphisbaenia) Driven by End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction
Biogeography of worm lizards rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org (Amphisbaenia) driven by end-Cretaceous mass extinction Nicholas R. Longrich1, Jakob Vinther2, R. Alexander Pyron3, Davide Pisani2 Research and Jacques A. Gauthier4 Cite this article: Longrich NR, Vinther J, 1Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK Pyron RA, Pisani D, Gauthier JA. 2015 2School of Biological Sciences and School of Earth Sciences, Life Sciences Building, 24 Tyndall Avenue, University Biogeography of worm lizards (Amphisbaenia) of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1UG, UK 3Biological Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA driven by end-Cretaceous mass extinction. 4Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8109, USA Proc. R. Soc. B 282: 20143034. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.3034 Worm lizards (Amphisbaenia) are burrowing squamatesthat live as subterranean predators. Their underground existence should limit dispersal, yet they are wide- spread throughout the Americas, Europe and Africa. This pattern was traditionally explained by continental drift, but molecular clocks suggest a Ceno- Received: 12 December 2014 zoic diversification, long after the break-up of Pangaea, implying dispersal. Here, Accepted: 27 February 2015 we describe primitive amphisbaeniansfromtheNorthAmericanPalaeocene, including the oldest known amphisbaenian, and provide new and older molecu- lar divergence estimates for the clade, showing that worm lizards originated in North America, then radiated and dispersedinthePalaeogenefollowingtheCre- taceous-Palaeogene (K-Pg) extinction. This scenario implies at least three trans- Subject Areas: oceanic dispersals: from North America to Europe, from North America to evolution, palaeontology, Africa and from Africa to South America. Amphisbaenians provide a striking taxonomy and systematics case study in biogeography, suggesting that the role of continental drift in biogeo- graphy may be overstated.