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Bibliography of the reptiles of
Roraima  [Brazil]

Note: In order to limit redundancy, relevant literature indexed in the related bibliographies in the left column may not have been included in this page. For a comprehensive search of literature, these bibliographies should therefore also be consulted.


Avila-Pires, T.C.S. 2005. Reptiles. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington 13: 25-40.

Avila-Pires, T.C.S. 2005. Reptiles. pp. 25-40. In: Hollowell, T. & Reynolds, R.P. (eds.). Checklist of the terrestrial vertebrates of the Guiana Shield. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington 13(1): 1-98.

Caldwell, J.P.; Vitt, L.J. 1999. Dietary asymmetry in leaf litter frogs and lizards in a transitional northern Amazonian rain forest. Oikos 84(3): 383-397.

Cunha, O.R. da 1981. Lacertilios da Amazonia. VII. Lagartos da regiao norte do territorio federal de Roraima, Brasil. (Lacertilia; Gekkonidae, Iguanidae, Scincidae & Teiidae). Boletim do Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi N.S. (Zoologia) 107: 1-107.

Cunha, O.R. da; Nascimento, F.P. do 1980. Ofidios da Amazonia. 11. Ofidios de Roraima e notas sobre Erythrolamprus bauperthuisii Dumeril, Bibron & Dumeril, 1854, sinônimo de Erythrolamprus aesculapii aesculapii (Linnaneus, 1758). Boletim do Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi Nova Serie Zoologia 102: 1-21.

Hollowell, T.; Reynolds, R. (eds.). 2005. Checklist of the terrestrial vertebrates of the Guiana Shield. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington 13: 1-98.

MacCulloch, R.D.; Lathrop, A.; Reynolds, R.P.; Señaris, J.C.; Schneider, G.E. 2007. Herpetofauna of Mount Roraima, Guiana Shield region, northeastern South America. Herpetological Review 38(1): 24-30.

Moraes, L.J.C.L.; Almeida, A.P.; Fraga, R.; Rojas, R.R.; Pirani, R.M.; Silva, A.A.A.; Carvalho, V.T. de; Gordo, M.; Werneck, F.P. 2017. Integrative overview of the herpetofauna from Serra da Mocidade, a granitic mountain range in northern Brazil. ZooKeys 715: 103–159.

Nascimento, S.P. do; Morato de Carvalho, C.; Souza Farias, R.E. 2012. Os quelônios de Roraima. Biologia Geral e Experimental 12(1): 1-48.

O'Shea, M. 1990. The herpetofauna of Ilha de Maraca, State of Roraima, northern Brazil. pp. 51-72. In: Coote, J. (ed.). Reptiles: Proceedings of the 1988 U.K. Herpetological Societies Symposium on Captive Breeding. British Herpetological Society, London. 108 pp.

O'Shea, M. 1998. The reptilian herpetofauna of the Ilha de Maraca. pp. 231-262, 462-466. In: Milliken, W. & Ratter, J.A. (eds.). Maraca: the biodiversity and environment of an Amazonian rainforest. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, New York, etc. 508 pp.

Vitt, L.J.; Zani, P.A. 1998. Ecological relationships among sympatric lizards in a transitional forest in the northern Amazon of Brazil. Journal of Tropical Ecology 14(1): 63-86.