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Provedor de dados: | Zoologia
País: | Brazil
Título: | Records of the rattlesnakes Crotalus durissus terrificus (Laurenti) (Serpentes, Viperidae) in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: a possible case of invasion facilitated by deforestation
Autores: | Bastos,Eduardo G. de M.; Araújo,Alexandre F. B. de; Silva,Hélio R. da.
Data: | 2005-09-01
Ano: | 2005
Palavras-chave: | Atlantic Forest; Habitat disturbance; Range expansion; Rattlesnake; Snake.
Resumo: | This paper documents the presence of rattlesnakes, as an invasive species, in several municipalities of the State of Rio de Janeiro. As previous registers indicate, these snakes probably invaded at least the municipality of Valença carried by floodwaters between the decades of 1950 and 1960. In the new environment, along the margins of the Rio Preto, these snakes were able to establish new populations in deforested areas turned into cattle grazing. The presence of rattlesnake in the municipality of Barra do Piraí, a municipality that has no border with Rio Preto, however, indicates that these snakes dispersal into new areas may be facilitated by open areas, represented by pastures, created after deforestations.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-81752005000300047
Editor: | Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia
Relação: | 10.1590/S0101-81752005000300047
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Revista Brasileira de Zoologia  v.22 n.3 2005
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess