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Irelis Bignotte-Giró Karell Maure

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This study characterizes the fauna of amphibians and reptiles of the San Felipe plateau, Camagüey province, Cuba, an area poorly studied so far. Visual encounters surveys with active search of the animals were used, carrying out diurnal and nocturnal, and visual and auditory sampling. As a result, 20 species were found, nine of them were amphibians and 11 were reptiles, which represent 12.7% and 6.9% of the total number of species in Cuba, respectively. Six amphibians and five reptiles are endemic to Cuba, as well as two species of amphibians included in the Vulnerable category of the IUCN Red List. Five of the eight studied vegetation types showed a total richness of 6–7 species, in the other three types, only 3–5 species were detected, and in two no amphibians were recorded. The two plantations (Eucalyptus sp. and Pinus caribaea) yielded only 1–2 amphibian species. The greatest richness of reptiles (five species) was obtained in the wooded vegetation types, where the three strata of vegetation were well developed: tree, shrub and herbaceous. The information obtained in this study could serve as a starting point for other studies and as a basis for planning management actions for the natural areas of the plateau.

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Cuba central, herpetofauna, biological inventories

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Bignotte-Giró, I., & Maure, K. (2023). Amphibians and reptiles of the San Felipe plateau, Camagüey, Cuba. Novitates Caribaea, (22), 61–70. https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.vi22.339

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