Epictia phenops

Barragán-Vázquez, Rosario, Ríos-Rodas, Liliana, Fucsko, Lydia Allison, Porras, Louis W., Mata-Silva, Vicente, Rocha, Arturo, DeSantis, Dominic L., García-Padilla, Elí, Johnson, Jerry D. & Wilson, Larry David, 2022, The herpetofauna of Tabasco, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation status, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 315) 16 (2), pp. 1-61 : 15-18

Epictia phenops 4

Nerodia rhombifera 3

Virgotyphlops braminus **

Chelonia mydas 9

Lepidochelys kempii 9

Dermochelys coriacea 9

Note that only one of these 11 species (9.1%) is a country endemic, two (18.2%) are non-natives, and eight (72.7%) are non-endemics. Of the eight non-endemics, one is a MXUS species (12.5%), the only one in Tabasco that ranges northward from Mexico into the United States. Two of these are MXCA species (25.0%), two are MXSA species (25.0%), and three are OCEA (or oceanic) species (37.5%; the sea turtles).

No. 9. Leptodactylus fragilis (Brocchi, 1877) . The White-lipped Frog is distributed from the Lower Rio Grande Valley of southern Texas (USA) through eastern and southern Mexico (southeast from Colima), and into Central America through northern and western Colombia (https://amphibiansoftheworld. amnh.org/). This individual was found in the Ejido Villa Guadalupe of Huimanguillo , Tabasco. Wilson et al. (2013b) calculated its EVS as 5, placing it in the lower portion of the low vulnerability category. Its conservation status has been considered as Least Concern ( LC) by the IUCN, but this species is not listed by SEMARNAT. Photo by José del Carmen Gerónimo-Torres .

No. 11. Lithobates vaillanti (Brocchi, 1877) . Vaillant’s Frog ranges from “low and moderate elevations from north-central Veracruz and northern Oaxaca to the central Rio Magdalena region in Colombia on the Atlantic versant and on the Pacific versant in southeastern Oaxaca and northwestern Chiapas, Mexico, and from northwestern Nicaragua to southwestern Ecuador ” (https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/). This individual was located in the Ejido Villa Guadalupe of Huimanguillo , Tabasco. Wilson et al. (2013b) determined its EVS as 9, placing it at the upper limit of the low vulnerability category. Its conservation status has been considered as Least Concern ( LC) by the IUCN, but this species is not listed by SEMARNAT. Photo by José del Carmen Gerónimo-Torres .

No. 10. Agalychnis taylori Funkhouser, 1957 . Taylor’s Leaf Frog occurs on the Atlantic slopes and lowlands from southern Veracruz and northern Oaxaca in Mexico, through the more humid portions of Tabasco, Campeche, Quintana Roo and Yucatan, and on through Guatemala to west-central Honduras (https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/). This individual was found in the municipality of Centro, Tabasco. Torres-Hernández et al. (2021) calculated its EVS as 11, placing it in the lower portion of the medium vulnerability category. Its conservation status has been considered as Least Concern (LC) by the IUCN, but this species is not listed by SEMARNAT. Photo by José del Carmen Gerónimo-Torres.

No. 12. Bolitoglossa mexicana Duméril, Bibron, and Duméril, 1854 . The Mexican Mushroom-tongued Salamander is distributed from the “Atlantic slope from southern Veracruz ( Mexico) across the base of the Yucatan Peninsula, with an isolated population in the northern part of Yucatan Peninsula, to Honduras (extending to the Pacific versant in the Ocotepeque) and El Salvador (Departamento de Chalatenango, municipio de La Palma, Cerro La Palma )” (https://amphibiansoftheworld. amnh.org/). This individual was encountered in Villa Luz, in the municipality of Tacotalpa, Tabasco. Wilson et al. (2013b) assessed its EVS as 11, placing it in the lower portion of the medium vulnerability category. Its conservation status has been considered as Least Concern (LC) by the IUCN and it is allocated to the Special Protection (Pr) category by SEMARNAT. Photo by Liliana Ríos-Rodas.

The eight single-region species in the SBP ( Table 7) are as follows (numbers refer to the distributional categories as designated by Wilson et al. [2017]; an asterisk indicates country endemics):