Anfibios y reptiles de la sierra de Santa Rosa, Guanajuato: cien años después

Abstract

A CHECKLIST OF THE HERPETOFAUNA FOR THE SIERRA DE SANTA ROSA, GUANAJUATO, RESULTED FROM SIX FIELD TRIPS IN A TWO YEARS PERIOD IS PRESENTED. THE ACTUAL DIVERSITY IS COMPARED WITH THAT REPORTED BY A. DUGES (1869, 1895, 1896) DENOTING THOSE SPECIES CATALOGUED IN THE NORMA OFICIAL MEXICANA (NOM-059-ECOL-1994). THIRTY ONE SPECIES WERE REGISTERED (11 AMPHIBIANS AND 20 REPTILES), SEVEN MORE THAN THOSE REPORTED BY DUGES. BECOMING THE SIERA DE SANTA ROSA ONE OF THE MAJOR SITES OF HERPETOFAUNA DIVERSITY IN THE STATE OF GUANAJUATO. THE FROGS HYLAMIOTYMPANUM, SMILISCA BAUDINI, AND ELEUTHERODACTYLUS NITIDUS, THE LIZARD SCELOPORUS MINOR, AND THE SNAKES TOLUCA LINEATA AND CROTALUS MOLOSSUS NIGRESCENS ARE NEW RECORDS FOR THE SIERRA DE SANTA ROSA, AND THE SNAKE RAMPHOTHYLOPS BRAMINUS IS ALSO A NEW RECORD FOR THE STATE OF GUANAJUATO. ONLY A 18% OF THE AMPHIBIANS AND 48% OF THE REPTILES ARE LISTED IN THE NOM-059-ECOT.-1994, BEING HABITAT DESTRUCTION THEIR MAJOR THREAT. SCELOPORUS AENEUS AND S. SCALARIS SEEM TO BE EXTIRPATED, HOWEVER, MOST SPECIES OF AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES REPORTED REPORTED BY DUGÈS MORE THAN 100 YEARS AGO, HAVE SURVIVED LOCAL EXTINCTION. THE SNAKE SENTICOLIS TRIASPIS INTERMEDIUS IS A NEW RECORD FOR THE STATE OF GUANAJUATO, ALTHOUGH IT IS NOT PART OF THE HERPETOFAUNA OF THE SIERRA DE SANTA ROSA.