Marco Antonio de Freitas

Marco Antonio de Freitas, Brazilian herpetologist

Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio), Buíque, Pernambuco, Brazil.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Rodrigues, M.T., Cassimiro, J., Freitas, M.A. & Silva, T.F.S. 2009. A new microteiid lizard of the genus Acratosaura (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from Serra do Sincorá, State of Bahia, Brazil. Zootaxa 2013: 17–29. Abstract & excerpt Reference page.

de Freitas, M.A., Vieira, R.S., Entiauspe-Neto, O.M., Sousa, S.O. e, Farias, T., Sousa, A.G. & de Moura, G.J.B. 2017. Herpetofauna of the Northwest Amazon forest in the state of Maranhão, Brazil, with remarks on the Gurupi Biological Reserve. Zookeys, 643: 141–155. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.643.8215. Reference page.
Rodrigues, M.T., Recoder, R., Teixeira Jr., M., Roscito, J.G., Guerrero, A.C., Nunes, P.M.S., Freitas, M.A., Fernandes, D.S., Bocchiglieri, A., Dal Vechio, F., Leite, F.S.F., Nogueira, C.C., Damasceno, R., Pellegrino, K.C.M., Argôlo, A.J.S. & Amaro, R.C. 2017. A morphological and molecular study of Psilops, a replacement name for the Brazilian microteiid lizard genus Psilophthalmus Rodrigues 1991 (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae), with the description of two new species. Zootaxa 4286(4): 451–482. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.4.1 Reference page.

Barbo, F.E., Grazziotin, F.G., Pereira-Filho, G.A., Freitas, M.A., Abrantes, S.H.F. & Kokubum, M.N.C. 2022. Isolated by dry lands: integrative analyses unveil the existence of a new species and a previously unknown evolutionary lineage of Brazilian Lanceheads (Serpentes: Viperidae: Bothrops) from a Caatinga moist-forest enclave. Canadian Journal of Zoology 100(2): 147–159. DOI: 10.1139/cjz-2021-0131 Reference page.