Oliveros O, Prieto A, Comejo P
Departarnento de Biologla, Escuela de Ciencias, NUcleo de Sucre U.D.O, Cumaná, Venezuela, Apartado 245.
Acta Cient Venez. 2000;51(2):104-8.
An inventory of the reptiles that inhabit in Cerro Colorado and its surroundings, was performed from March, 1994 to March, 1995. There were reported 8 species of snakes and 7 of lizards enclosed in 4 and 5 families repectively. Aspects observed were ecolology as habitat, activity, reproduction and relative abundance. The more abundant species of lizards were: Cnemidophorus femniscatus, Ameiva bifrontata, (Teiidae), Tropidurus hispidus (Tropiduridae), Gonatodes vittatus and Hemidactylus mabouia (Gekkonidae) and the ophidians: Leptodeira annulata and Mastigodryas amarali (Colubridae). It is believed that the changes occurred in the zone influenced the increase of the relative abundance of the species Leptotyphlops goudotii (Leptotyphlopidae) arid Gymnophthalmus speciosus(Gymnophthalmidae) and perhaps in the disappearance of others that have been reported at the xerophitic or semixerophitic zones of the Sucre State of Venezuela.
1994年3月至1995年3月，对栖息在科罗拉多山及其周边地区的爬行动物进行了清查。报告了8种蛇和7种蜥蜴，分别隶属于4个蛇科和5个蜥蜴科。观察的方面包括作为栖息地、活动、繁殖和相对丰度的生态学。蜥蜴中较为常见的物种有：双线南美蜥、双色鞭尾蜥（鞭尾蜥科）、多刺强棱蜥（强棱蜥科）、条纹睑虎和马氏半叶趾虎（壁虎科），蛇类有：环纹颈蛇和亚马拉尔锦蛇（游蛇科）。据信，该地区发生的变化影响了细盲蛇（细盲蛇科）和华丽裸眼蜥（裸眼蜥科）相对丰度的增加，或许还导致了委内瑞拉苏克雷州旱生或半旱生地带曾有记录的其他一些物种的消失。
