ANFIBIOS Y REPTILES DE LA COMUNIDAD EL PAREDÓN, MIACATLÁN, MORELOS, MÉXICO

Resumen

It has been conducted an inventory of amphibians and reptiles in the Paredón community located in the town of Miacatlán, Morelos, Mexico. To achieve this, there were monthly outflows from September 2012 to August 2013, each lasting four days. Transect variable method was used. The herpetofauna of the community consists of a total of 39 species, consisting of six families, 11 genus and 16 species of amphibians and eight families, 15 genus and 23 species of reptiles. Of the 39 species recorded, 54% are endemic to Mexico and 74% in Mesoamerica. 38% of the species are included in a risk category. Four species of amphibians and three reptiles’ species as new records for the State of Morelos are reported. Abundance, frequency and diversity was determined, also the Jaccard index was apply, as a result we can know that there is 76% similarity among the study area with the Sierra de Huautla and caves of Cacahuamilpa, 54.98% with Jungapeo, 56.5% was applied to Taxco and Sierra del Carmen, and 12% El Rancho de las Papas. It was determined that the highest value of diversity in amphibians was 0.81 and 0.86 in reptiles.