An annotated list of the reptiles of the highland grassland of Tandilia Mountains, Argentina

• David Gustavo Gustavo Vera ^[1] ; Diego Omar Di Pietro ^[1] ; Germán Tettamanti ^[1] ; Manuel Eirin ^[1] ; Clara Trofino Falasco ^[2] ; María Florencia Aranguren ^[2] ; Jorge Daniel Williams ^[1] ; Federico Pablo Kacoliris ^[1] ; Igor Berkunsky ^[2]
  1. [1] Universidad Nacional de La Plata

     Universidad Nacional de La Plata

     Argentina

     
  2. [2] Universidad Nacional del Centro. Argentina
• Localización: Neotropical Biology and Conservation, ISSN 1809-9939, Vol. 16, Nº. 1, 2021, págs. 185-204
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The study of biodiversity is a fundamental step to develop conservation strategies. Reptile populations are immersed in a global crisis, due to anthropic disturbances. Almost the entire Pampa ecoregion in Argentina was modified for agricultural and livestock activities, the only remnants of mountain native grasslands in Buenos Aires province being the Tandilia and Ventania mountain systems. Ventania reptiles have been exhaustively researched in last years, while Tandilia counts with fewer studies. We presented an actualized reptiles list of the Tandilia Mountain System. We used five data sources to collect presence records: literature, fieldwork, museum collection, citizen science, and a online database. The composition of reptiles from the Tandilia Mountain range includes 26 species in 12 families. Due to the presence of several endemic reptiles, and the representativeness of more than half of the reptiles of Pampa Ecoregion, Tandilia would be useful to determine conservation priority areas to conserve the native grassland and their reptile fauna.