The montane cloud forests of the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca (SMO) host a remarkable herpetofauna diversity and represent one of the most important areas of endemism for Mexico and Mesoamerica. Although the area has been previously studied, most of the extant records for this group are biased to locations accessed by paved roads. In addition, an important proportion of this territory is conserved by Indigenous and Community Conservation Areas (ICCA), but little information of the species occurring within these areas exists. Therefore, information on the distribution of many endemic taxa in this region to date is either underestimated or incomplete. With the aim of increasing the ecological and distributional knowledge of this group in remote areas, we carried out field surveys in Santa Cruz Tepetotutla Oaxaca, a locality 25 km in a straight line to the closest paved road that conserves 9,670 ha of land through the ICCAs modality. Surveys were made during 2018 and 2019, including both dry and wet seasons. A total of 40 species of amphibians and reptiles were recorded: 32.5% of these records represent distributional range extensions, while 20% represent altitudinal range extensions. A total of 17.5% are records of species under a high risk category, highlighting both the relevance of studying remote areas to increase species population knowledge and the role of community conservation actions for species persistence. Finally, our records include the rediscovery of Rhadinella schistosa, a species undetected for more than 50 years.

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土著和社区保护区在爬行动物保护中的作用：墨西哥瓦哈卡州圣克鲁斯特佩托图特拉的初步清单


瓦哈卡马德雷山脉 (SMO) 的山地云林拥有显着的爬行动物多样性，是墨西哥和中美洲最重要的特有地区之一。尽管之前已经对该地区进行过研究，但该群体的大多数现有记录都偏向于通过铺砌道路到达的位置。此外，该领土的很大一部分受到土著和社区保护区（ICCA）的保护，但有关这些区域内出现的物种的信息很少。因此，迄今为止，有关该地区许多特有类群分布的信息要么被低估，要么不完整。为了增加偏远地区这一群体的生态和分布知识，我们在圣克鲁斯·特佩托图特拉·瓦哈卡 (Santa Cruz Tepetotutla Oaxaca) 进行了实地调查，该地区距最近的铺装道路直线 25 公里，通过 ICCA 保护了 9,670 公顷的土地情态。调查于 2018 年和 2019 年进行，包括旱季和雨季。总共记录了 40 种两栖动物和爬行动物：其中 32.5% 的记录代表分布范围扩展，而 20% 代表海拔范围扩展。总共 17.5% 是高风险类别物种的记录，凸显了研究偏远地区以增加物种种群知识的相关性以及社区保护行动对物种持久性的作用。最后，我们的记录包括重新发现Rhadinella schistosa，这是一个 50 多年来未被发现的物种。