NEW DISTRIBUTIONAL RECORDS FOR AN ENDANGERED TURTLE, Claudius angustatus (REPTILIA: TESTUDINES), AND NOTES ON ITS THREATS IN VERACRUZ, MEXICO

Angel Ivan Contreras-Calvario; Abigail Mora-Reyes; Axel Fuentes-Moreno; Medardo Arreortúa; Erasmo  Cázares-Hernández; Felipe A.  Lara-Hernández; Marco Antonio  López Luna

doi:10.22201/fc.25942158e.2024.2.934

Authors

Angel Ivan Contreras-Calvario Instituto Politécnico Nacional, CIIDIR-Oaxaca, Laboratorio de Ecología de Anfibios, Hornos 1003, Col. Noche Buena, 71230, Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán, Oaxaca, México.
Abigail Mora-Reyes Herpetario de Veracruz. PIMVS. Veracruz, México
Axel Fuentes-Moreno
Medardo Arreortúa Instituto Politécnico Nacional, CIIDIR-Oaxaca, Laboratorio de Ecología de Anfibios, Hornos 1003, Col. Noche Buena, 71230, Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán, Oaxaca, México.
Erasmo Cázares-Hernández Instituto Tecnológico Nacional de México, Campus Zongolica, Colección Científica ITSZ. Km.4 Carretera a la compañía S/N Tepetitlanapa, Zongolica, Veracruz, México. C.P. 95005.
Felipe A. Lara-Hernández Herpetario Palancoatl, Av.19 No.5225, Col. Nueva Esperanza, Córdoba, Veracruz, México, C.P. 94590
Marco Antonio López Luna División Académica de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, Carretera Villahermosa-Cárdenas km 0.5 Villahermosa, Tabasco, México, C.P. 86039

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22201/fc.25942158e.2024.2.934

Keywords:

Altas Montañas region, disturbed habitat, freshwater turtle, sugarcane cultivation, urbanization

Abstract

Claudius angustatus is an endangered species of freshwater turtle. In this work, we provide new records that increase its geographical distribution by 25.1 km and increase the altitudinal range by ca. 209 m. We highlight the fact that most of these data come from areas highly modified by human actions, mainly due to the sugar cane industry and cultivation.

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