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Crocodylus Moreletii ANFIBIOS Y REPTILES: DIVERSIDAD E HISTORIA NATURAL VOLUMEN 03 NÚMERO 02 NOVIEMBRE 2020 ISSN: 2594-2158 Es un publicación de la CONSEJO DIRECTIVO 2019-2021 COMITÉ EDITORIAL Presidente Editor-en-Jefe Dr. Hibraim Adán Pérez Mendoza Dra. Leticia M. Ochoa Ochoa Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Senior Editors Vicepresidente Dr. Marcio Martins (Artigos em português) Dr. Óscar A. Flores Villela Dr. Sean M. Rovito (English papers) Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Editores asociados Secretario Dr. Uri Omar García Vázquez Dra. Ana Bertha Gatica Colima Dr. Armando H. Escobedo-Galván Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez Dr. Oscar A. Flores Villela Dra. Irene Goyenechea Mayer Goyenechea Tesorero Dr. Rafael Lara Rezéndiz Dra. Anny Peralta García Dr. Norberto Martínez Méndez Conservación de Fauna del Noroeste Dra. Nancy R. Mejía Domínguez Dr. Jorge E. Morales Mavil Vocal Norte Dr. Hibraim A. Pérez Mendoza Dr. Juan Miguel Borja Jiménez Dr. Jacobo Reyes Velasco Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango Dr. César A. Ríos Muñoz Dr. Marco A. Suárez Atilano Vocal Centro Dra. Ireri Suazo Ortuño M. en C. Ricardo Figueroa Huitrón Dr. Julián Velasco Vinasco Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México M. en C. Marco Antonio López Luna Dr. Adrián García Rodríguez Vocal Sur M. en C. Marco Antonio López Luna Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco English style corrector PhD candidate Brett Butler Diseño editorial Lic. Andrea Vargas Fernández M. en A. Rafael de Villa Magallón http://herpetologia.fciencias.unam.mx/index.php/revista NOTAS CIENTÍFICAS SKIN TEXTURE CHANGE IN DIASPORUS HYLAEFORMIS (ANURA: ELEUTHERODACTYLIDAE) ..................... 95 CONTENIDO Juan G. Abarca-Alvarado NOTES OF DIET IN HIGHLAND SNAKES RHADINAEA EDITORIAL CALLIGASTER AND RHADINELLA GODMANI (SQUAMATA:DIPSADIDAE) FROM COSTA RICA ...... 98 SERPIENTES VENENOSAS EN MÉXICO: UNA REVISIÓN Juan G. Abarca-Alvarado AL ESTUDIO DE LOS VENENOS, LOS ANTIVENENOS Y LA EPIDEMIOLOGÍA ..............................................5 NOTAS DE COMPORTAMIENTO DEFENSIVO DE DOS Edgar Neri-Castro, Melisa Bénard-Valle, Guillermo Gil, SALAMANDRAS DE LA REGIÓN DE TALAMANCA, COSTA Miguel Borja, Jorge López de León & Alejandro Alagón RICA .................................................................102 Maria José Camacho-Durán & Diego A. Gómez-Hoyos ARTÍCULOS CIENTÍFICOS REGISTRO DE ECTRODACTILIA Y BRAQUIDACTILIA EN ESTADO POBLACIONAL Y DISTRIBUCIÓN DEL RHEOHYLA MIOTYMPANUM (ANURA: HYLIDAE) EN UN COCODRILO DE PANTANO (CROCODYLUS CAFETAL BAJO SOMBRA DEL CENTRO DE VERACRUZ, MORELETII) EN REGIONES PRIORITARIAS DE PETÉN, MÉXICO ............................................................ 107 GUATEMALA ....................................................... 23 Tonantzin Carmona-Zamora, Adriana Sandoval-Comte & Juan Valerie Andrea Corado García, José Octavio Cajas Castillo & Manuel Díaz-García Javier Arturo Benítez-Moreno DEPREDACIÓN DE NINIA DIADEMATA (SERPENTES: EL SAPO ARLEQUÍN DEL CHOCÓ (ATELOPUS SPURRELLI COLUBRIDAE) POR UNA ARAÑA VIUDA NEGRA BOULENGER, 1914) EN EL PARQUE NACIONAL NATURAL (LATRODECTUS MACTANS) ..................................111 UTRÍA, COLOMBIA: DENSIDAD POBLACIONAL Angel Eduardo Carrasco-González & Ricardo Serna-Lagunes Y RECOMENDACIONES PARA SU MONITOREO Y CONSERVACIÓN ................................................. 34 ON THE TAXONOMIC STATUS OF APOSTOLEPIS Ángela Milena Melo-Beltrán, Lincoln de Jesús Moya-Córdoba, RONCADORI LEMA, 2016 AND APOSTOLEPIS VITTATA Fabian Eliecer Vergara-Rosario & Diego A. Gómez-Hoyos (COPE, 1887) (SERPENTES: DIPSDIDAE) ................ 114 Omar Machado Entiauspe-Neto & Arthur Tiutenko UNA LISTA COMENTADA DE LAS ESPECIES DE ANFIBIOS Y REPTILES CON LOCALIDAD TIPO EN AMPLEXO HETEROESPECÍFICO ENTRE RHINELLA GUERRERO, MÉXICO .......................................... 43 HORRIBILIS (ANURA: BUFONIDAE) Y RHINOPHRYNUS Ricardo Palacios-Aguilar DORSALIS (ANURA: RHINOPHRYNIDAE) EN EL MUNICIPIO DE JIQUIPILAS, CHIAPAS, MÉXICO ...120 A REVISION OF THE HERPETOFAUNA OF COLIMA, Emmanuel Javier-Vázquez, Víctor Vásquez-Cruz & Víctor MEXICO ..............................................................61 Alfonso Pérez Trujillo Jacobo Reyes-Velasco, Christoph I. Grünwald, Jason M. Jones & Iván Ahumada-Carrillo AN ADULT MALE BASILISCUS PLUMIFRONS COPE, 1875 WITHOUT AN ARM SURVIVES IN THE TROPICAL RAIN ASSESSMENT OF POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS FOREST OF COSTA RICA ..................................... 123 AND HABITAT USE OF PODOCNEMIS VOGLI (MÜLLER José M. Mora, Lucía I. López & Narón Campos Loría 1935) DURING A REPRODUCTIVE SEASON AT THE BOJONAWI PRIVATE NATURE RESERVE (VICHADA REGISTROS DE CONSUMO DE REPTILES DEPARTMENT, COLOMBIA) .................................. 83 (SQUAMATA: LACERTILIA Y SERPENTES) POR AVES Ana M. Sepúlveda-Seguro, Vivian P. Páez, Marley T. Gómez- DE PRESA DIURNAS (AVES: ACCIPITRIFORMES Y Rincón, Mónica A. Morales-Betancourt2 & Carlos A. Lasso CATHARTIFORMES) EN LA PENÍNSULA DE YUCATÁN, MÉXICO ............................................................126 NOTAS SOBRE LA DISTRIBUCIÓN DE COLEONYX Pedro E. Nahuat-Cervera, J. Rizieri Avilés-Novelo, Ismael ELEGANS (SQUAMATA: EUBLEPHARIDAE) CON Arellano-Ciau, Luis G. Trinchan-Guerra & Eyder Joel Pacab-Cox REGISTROS DE EXTENSIÓN DE RANGO EN GUATEMALA ...................................................... 157 NUEVOS REGISTROS DE PUESTAS DE HUEVOS DE LA Cesar E. Fuentes-Montejo, J. Renato Morales-Mérida & María RANITA DE CRISTAL NORTEÑA HYALINOBATRACHIUM José Chang FLEISCHMANNI (ANURA: CENTROLENIDAE) ........ 133 Erick Rodrigo Ocaña Díaz, Emilio Alfonso Suárez-Domínguez, FIRST RECORD OF EPICTIA BAKEWELLI Naomi López Mendoza, Orlando Rafael Vivanco Montané & (LEPTOTYPHLOPIDAE) IN THE STATE OF JALISCO, Edgar Ahmed Bello-Sánchez MEXICO ............................................................ 161 Edgar E. Hernández-Juárez, Daniel Cruz-Sáenz, Andrés A CUBAN TREEFROG (OSTEOPILUS SEPTENTRIONALIS, Rodríguez-López, Eduardo D. Roldán-Olvera & Gerardo Ramos- HYLIDAE) PREYING ON A CAGED YELLOW-FACED León GRASSQUIT (TIARIS OLIVACEUS) IN CUBA ............ 139 Yessica Portal Ríos, Rafael Borroto-Páez & Denise Reyes Pérez A NEW DISTRIBUTION RECORD AND PREY ITEM FOR OXYRHOPUS FITZINGERI (REPTILIA: DIPSADIDAE) IN TAIL BIFURCATION IN PLESTIODON COPEI (TAYLOR, AREQUIPA, SOUTHERN PERU ............................. 164 1933) (SQUAMATA: SCINCIDAE) ............................ 143 Nicolas W. Mamani-Cabana Orlando Suárez-Rodríguez, Gabriel Suárez-Varón, Marisol Marín-Vera & C.M. Watson AMEROTYPHLOPS MICROSTOMUS (SQUAMATA: TYPHLOPIDAE) .................................................. 167 DEPREDACIÓN DE LA LAGARTIJA PLESTIODON COPEI Alvaro Monter-Pozos, Pedro E. Nahuat-Cervera & J. Rizieri (SCINCIDAE) POR LA RANA LITHOBATES MONTEZUMAE Avilés-Novelo (RANIDAE) EN MICHOACÁN, MÉXICO ................. 147 Jonatan Torres-Pérez-Coeto, Ireri Suazo-Ortuño & Javier NUEVOS REGISTROS DE CRAUGASTOR YUCATANENSIS Alvarado-Díaz (ANURA: CRAUGASTORIDAE) EN EL ESTADO DE YUCATÁN .......................................................... 169 NUEVOS REGISTROS DE DISTRIBUCIÓN DE Pedro E. Nahuat-Cervera, Allam H. Tzab-Pech, Aarón MICRUROIDES EURYXANTHUS AUSTRALIS Y Rodríguez-Blanco & Juan Cruzado MICRUROIDES EURYXANTHUS NEGLECTUS (SERPENTES: ELAPIDAE), Y SU DISTRIBUCIÓN EPICRATES ALVAREZI (ÁBALOS, BAEZ & NADER, 1964) POTENCIAL EN SINALOA, MÉXICO ...................... 149 (SQUAMATA: BOIDAE) ........................................ 172 Pedro Uriarte-Garzón, Antonio Esaú Valdenegro-Brito, Víctor Maximiliano Pardo, Lucía Martínez Retta, Samuel Horacio Bárcenas-Rodríguez & Uri Omar García-Vázquez Ernesto Olivieri Bornand & Juan Manuel Pérez Iglesias NOTAS DE DISTRIBUCIÓN INDOTYPHLOPS BRAMINUS (DAUDIN, 1803), ISNN: 2594-2158 Volumen 03, Número 02, Noviembre 2020 TYPHLOPIDAE ................................................... 155 Foto de portada: Crotalus culminatus, Morelos, México, por Julio César Castañeda-Ortega & Salvador Guzmán-Guzmán Edgar Neri. http://herpetologia.fciencias.unam.mx/index.php/revista Contacto: [email protected] Revista Latinoamericana de Herpetología, año 3, no. 2, noviembre 2020, es una Publicación bianual editada por la Sociedad Herpetológica Mexicana A. C., Dirección: Instituto de Biología SN, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, C.P. 04510, http://herpetologia.fciencias.unam.mx/index.php/revista, tel. (55) 56224800 ext. 44724, [email protected], Editor responsable: Leticia Margarita Ochoa Ochoa. Reserva de derechos al Uso Exclusivo No. 04-2018-100215505800-203 ISSN: 2594-2158, ambos otorgados por el Instituto Nacional del Derecho de Autor. Responsable de la última actualización de este Número, Departamento de Biología Evolutiva, Leticia Margarita Ochoa Ochoa, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, C.P. 04510, fecha de última modificación, 30/noviembre /2018. EDITORIAL Neri-Castro et al. - Serpientes Venenosas en México - 05-22 SERPIENTES VENENOSAS EN MÉXICO: UNA REVISIÓN AL ESTUDIO DE LOS VENENOS, LOS ANTIVENENOS Y LA EPIDEMIOLOGÍA VENOMOUS SNAKES IN MEXICO: A REVIEW OF THE STUDY OF VENOMS, ANTIVENOM AND EPIDEMIOLOGY Edgar Neri-Castro1, Melisa Bénard-Valle1, Guillermo Gil2, Miguel Borja3, Jorge López de León4 & Alejandro Alagón1* 1Departamento de Medicina Molecular y Bioprocesos, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad 2001, Colonia Chamilpa, Cuernavaca, Morelos, C.P. 62210, México 2Secretaría Ejecutiva de la Reserva Ecológica del Pedregal de San Ángel. Coordinación de la Investigación Científica, UNAM. Edificio de Programas
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