Jorge Alberto Bañuelos-Alamillo

• Principal Investigator at Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas "Francisco García Salinas"

The West Mexican Coralsnake, Micrurus distans, has only been reported from Mezquital del Oro Municipality in the southwesternmost corner of Zacatecas State, Mexico. As a venomous snake, M. distans is a species of great biological and public health importance, and we here present a model of its potential distribution, considering records from taxono...

Intraspecific variation in snake venoms has been widely documented worldwide. However, there are few studies on this subject in Mexico. Venom characterization studies provide important data used to predict clinical syndromes, to evaluate the efficacy of antivenoms and, in some cases, to improve immunogenic mixtures in the production of antivenoms....

From 2011 to 2019, we visited 11 localities within the municipality of Huajicori in the state of Nayarit, Mexico, adjacent to natural vegetation such as low tropical deciduous forest, oak forest, oak-pine forest, and pine forest. We have found 20 amphibian and 35 reptile species, for a total of 55 species, with 30 endemic to the country. Twenty of...

From 2011 to 2019, we visited 11 localities within the municipality of Huajicori in the state of Nayarit, Mexico, adjacent to natural vegetation such as low tropical deciduous forest, oak forest, oak-pine forest, and pine forest. We have found 21 amphibian and 35 reptile species, for a total 56 species, with 31 endemic to the country. Twenty-one of...

We document the first record of Imantodes gemmi­ stratus for Zacatecas state, Mexico. In August 2016, one adult male was found in a dry forest and oak forest ecotone in the Municipality of Valparaiso. This new record extends known distribution of the species 166 km to the northeast from the nearest previous record in Nayarit state.