A new species of the lizard genus Bachia (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the Cerrados of Central Brazil

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 1875, 2008, Pages 39-50

  Rodrigues, Miguel Trefaut ^a   Camacho, Agustín ^a   Nunes, Pedro Murilo Sales ^a   Recoder, Renato Sousa ^a   Teixeira Jr , Mauro ^a   Valdujo, Paula H ^a   Ghellere, José Mário B ^b   Mott, Tamí ^b   Nogueira, Cristiano ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO   (Brazil)

^c Programa Cerrado Pantanal   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bachia oxyrhina; Brazil; Cerrado; Esta o Ecol Gica Serra Geral do Tocantins; Gymnophthalmidae; Jalap o; New species; Tocantins state

Indexed keywords

BACHIA; GYMNOPHTHALMIDAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 52049104194     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1875.1.3     Document Type: Article

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