A5059244247- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
- Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography
- Plant and animal studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Bird parasitology and diseases
- Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
- Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
- Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Date Palm Research Studies
- Vector-borne infectious diseases
- Turtle Biology and Conservation
- Dermatological diseases and infestations
- Helminth infection and control
- Alkaloids: synthesis and pharmacology
- Banana Cultivation and Research
- Botanical Research and Applications
- Phytochemistry and Bioactivity Studies
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Chemical synthesis and alkaloids
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
Universidade Federal do Ceará
2017-2025
Weatherford College
2024
Universidade de Fortaleza
2024
ORCID
2023
Universidade Regional do Cariri
2012-2021
Universidade Federal de Uberlândia
2021
Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco
2019
Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
2006-2013
Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
2010
Instituto Biológico
2009
Neotropical toads from the Rhinella margaritifera species group have been considered a taxonomic puzzle for long time. Because of high morphological similarity and an unknown number undescribed taxa among this group, we did extensive search character distribution within all nominal taxa. Herein describe parecis sp. nov. new Southern Brazilian Amazon. We provide diagnosis, morphometric comparisons with similar species, molecular phylogenetic hypothesis on relationships species. is assigned to...
A comprehensive and up to date summary of the literature on helminth parasites lizards amphisbaenians from South America is herein presented. One-hundred eighteen lizard species twelve countries were reported in harboring a total 155 species, being none acanthocephalans, 15 cestodes, 20 trematodes 111 nematodes. Of these, one record was Chile French Guiana, three Colombia, Uruguay, eight Bolivia, nine Surinam, 13 Paraguay, 12 Venezuela, 27 Ecuador, 17 Argentina, 39 Peru 103 Brazil. The...
The description of Amazophrynella minuta was published in 1941 by the Swedish naturalist Douglas Melin based on material from Taracuá (Amazonas state, Brazil). This very brief and morphology few specimens with diagnostic characters color variation not well defined. Moreover, type series is currently poor state conservation. Consequently, taxonomic ambiguity surrounds nominal taxon A. minuta, which hampers many unnamed congeneric species. Herein, we redescribe recently collected locality,...
There are currently 760 reptile species known in Brazil, from which about 70 amphisbaenians with 25 recorded the Brazilian northeast (Vanzolini 2002; Gomes & Maciel 2012; Costa Bérnils, 2014; Roberto et al., 2014). Leposternon polystegum Duméril, is a widespread distributed Amazon, Atlantic Forest, Cerrado, and Caatinga biomes (Porto 2000; Ribeiro 2011). The diet composed mainly by ants, termites, coleopteran larvae (Barros-Filho Valverde, 1996; 2009).
Boana hobbsi is a poorly known hylid frog currently placed within the punctata group. Yet, morphological, ecological and bioacoustic traits do not support this placement, with no molecular data being available to date test hypothesis. Based on newly collected mitochondrial DNA sequences, morphological review field observations, we provide new insight into phylogenetic relationships, variations geographic distribution of B. hobbsi. Our findings reveal that nested (with strong support)...
Species discovery methods utilizing coalescent-based approaches are powerful tools for detecting cryptic lineages within morphological conservative groups, thus being an important methodology of integrative taxonomic research. Crocodilians a classic example morphologically conserved group where coalescence-based species delimitation analyses resulted in the and potentially new species. In this study, we used several single locus to analyze phylogenetic diversity most widespread alligatorid...
A new nematode species of the Diplotriaenidae is described from Neotropical region. The was found infecting body cavity snake Xenodon merremii (Wagler in Spix) collected municipality Barbalha, Ceará State, Northeastern Brazil. Hastospiculum nordestinum n. sp. differs congeners by combining following characters: caudal end ornamented with lateral alae not surrounding tail and connected, supported eight pairs pedunculated papillae (three precloacal, one paracloacal, four postcloacal pairs)...
Physaloptera nordestina n. sp. (Nematoda: Physalopteridae) is described from the stomach of snakes Oxybelis aeneus (Wagler), Pseudoboa nigra (Duméril, Bibron Duméril) and Xenodon merremii (Wagler) (Squamata: Snakes), collected in northeastern Brazil. The new species has males with ornamented caudal alae connected ventrally, anterior to cloaca, 21 papillae, including four pedunculated 13 sessile pairs (six surrounding cloaca three at tail), spicules sub-equal size different shape. In...
Amphibians are probably the most vulnerable group to climate change and climate-change associate diseases. This ongoing biodiversity crisis makes it thus imperative improve taxonomy of anurans in biodiverse but understudied areas such as Amazonia. In this study, we applied robust integrative taxonomic methods combining genetic (mitochondrial 16S, 12S COI genes), morphological environmental data delimit species genus Amazophrynella (Anura: Bufonidae) sampled from throughout their...
The Serra do Urubu mountain range is considered a key biodiversity area. It situated in the Pernambuco Endemism Center, one of most threatened regions Brazilian Atlantic Forest. However, despite high importance this area little research on its herpetofauna has been performed. present study presents an inventory region, through bibliographic review, searches museum collections and field expeditions to RPPNs Frei Caneca Pedra D’Antas, municipalities Jaqueira Lagoa dos Gatos. conservation...