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Vertebrate observation dataset of North and West Africa (CIBIO-Biodeserts)

Distribution data of vertebrates (fishes, amphibians, reptiles and mammals) from North and West Africa collected by Biodeserts Research Group of CIBIO-InBIO, from 1999 to 2017

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Identification

Alternate Identifier

4d028294-7e88-4bed-8519-176af6a4b78f

Publication Date
2019-09-26
Title

Vertebrate observation dataset of North and West Africa (CIBIO-Biodeserts)

Abstract

Distribution data of vertebrates (fishes, amphibians, reptiles and mammals) from North and West Africa collected by Biodeserts Research Group of CIBIO-InBIO, from 1999 to 2017

Dataset Language

ENGLISH

 
Dataset Creator
  CIBIO - José Carlos Brito (Researcher)

Rua Padre Armando Quintas

,

Vairão

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4485-661

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PORTUGAL

https://cibio.up.pt/people/details/jcbrito
Metadata Provider
  CIBIO - José Carlos Brito (Researcher)

Rua Padre Armando Quintas

,

Vairão

,

4485-661

,

PORTUGAL

https://cibio.up.pt/people/details/jcbrito
Dataset Contact
  CIBIO - José Carlos Brito (Researcher)

Rua Padre Armando Quintas

,

Vairão

,

4485-661

,

PORTUGAL

https://cibio.up.pt/research-groups-1/details/biodesert
Keywords (GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml)
  • Occurrence

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  • Observation

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  • Mammalia

  • West Africa

  • Pisces

  • Amphibia

  • North Africa

  • Reptilia

Geographic Coverage

Geographic Description

Dataset of observations from North and West Africa, including Algeria, Burkina Faso, Chad, Egypt, Guinea-Bissau, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Senegal, and Tunisia.A few scattered observations from Armenia, Greece, Iran, Malawi, Portugal, Spain, and Turkey are also included

Bounding Box

West Bounding Coordinate

-18.809

East Bounding Coordinate

35.508

North Bounding Coordinate

37.858

South Bounding Coordinate

11.006

Temporal Coverage

Range of Dates

Begin Date

1999-12-29

End Date

2017-04-30

Taxonomic Coverage

General Taxonomic Coverage

Distribution data from Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Chordata1) Class PiscesOrder Characiformes1.1) Family AlestiidaeOrder Cypriniformes1.2) Family CyprinidaeOrder Perciformes1.3) Family CichlidaeOrder Siluriformes1.4) Familiy Clariidae1.5) Familiy Schilbeidae1.6) Familiy Mochocidae2) Class Amphibia:Order Anura2.1) Family Alytidae2.2) Family Bufonidae2.3) Family Dicroglossidae2.4) Family Hylidae2.5) Family Hyperoliidae2.6) Family Phrynobatrachidae2.7) Family Ptychadenidae 2.8) Family Pyxicephalidae2.9) Family RanidaeOrder Caudata2.10) Family Salamandridae3) Class ReptiliaOrder Crocodilia3.1) Family CrocodylidaeOrder Squamata3.2) Family Agamidae3.3) Family Amphisbenidae3.4) Family Anguidae3.5) Family Atractaspididae3.6) Family Boidae3.7) Family Chamaeleonidae3.8) Family Colubridae3.9) Family Elapidae3.10) Family Gekkonidae3.11) Family Lacertidae3.12) Family Lamprophiidae3.13) Family Phyllodactylidae3.14) Family Pythonidae3.15) Family Scincidae3.16) Family Sphaerodactylidae3.17) Family Varanidae3.18) Family ViperidaeOrder Testudines3.19) Family Emydidae3.20) Family Geoemydidae3.21) Family Pelomedusidae3.22) Family Testudinidae4) Class MammaliaOrder Artiodactyla4.1) Family SuidaeOrder Carnivora4.2) Family Canidae4.3) Family Felidae4.4) Family Herpestidae4.5) Family Mustelidae4.6) Family ViverridaeOrder Chiroptera4.7) Family Hipposideridae4.8) Family RhinopomatidaeOrder Erinaceomorpha4.9) Family ErinaceidaeOrder Eulipotyphla4.10) Family BovidaeOrder Lagomorpha4.11) Family LeporidaeOrder Primates4.12) Family CercopithecidaeOrder Rodentia4.13) Family Ctenodactylidae4.14) Family Dipodidae4.15) Family Gerbillidae4.16) Family Hystricidae4.17) Family Muridae4.18) Family SciuridaeOrder Uranotheria4.19) Family Procaviidae

Taxonomic Classification

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Amphibia

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Pisces

Taxonomic Classification

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Reptilia

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Mammalia

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Animalia

Taxonomic Classification

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Phylum

Taxonomic Rank Value

Chordata

License Information

Intellectual Rights

This work is licensed under a

Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

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Date Stamp

2021-11-29T09:05:15Z

Citation

Brito J C (2019). Vertebrate observation dataset of North and West Africa (CIBIO-Biodeserts). CIBIO (Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources) Portugal. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/4ptmwb accessed via GBIF.org on 2021-11-29.

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Brito JC, Campos JC, Gonçalves D, Martínez-Freiría F, Sillero N, Boratyński Z, Sow AS (2012). Status of Nile crocodiles in the lower Senegal River basin. Crocodile Specialist Group Newsletter, 30: 7-10

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Fonseca MM, Brito JC, Rebelo H, Kalboussi M, Larbes S, Carretero MA, Harris DJ (2008). Genetic variation among spiny-footed lizards in the Acanthodactylus pardalis group from North Africa. African Zoology, 43: 8-15

Fonseca MM, Brito JC, Paulo OS, Carretero MA, Harris DJ (2009). Systematic and phylogeographical assessment of the Acanthodactylus erythrurus group (Reptilia: Lacertidae) based on phylogenetic analyses of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 51: 131-142

Froufe E, Brito JC, Harris DJ (2009). Phylogeography of North African Amietophrynus xeros estimated from mitochondrial DNA sequences. African Zoology, 44(2): 208-215

Froufe E, Gonçalves DV, Brito JC, Harris DJ (2013). Nuclear and mitochondrial markers reveal the existence of several geographically concordant lineages within a Sahelian gecko species, Ptyodactylus ragazzii. Amphibia-Reptilia, 34: 85-93

Gonçalves DV, Brito JC, Crochet P-A, Geniez P, Padial JM, Harris DJ (2012). Phylogeny of North African Agama lizards (Reptilia: Agamidae) and the role of the Sahara desert in vertebrate speciation. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 64: 582–591

Gonçalves DV, Álvares F, Brito JC (2013). Data on the distribution of herpetofauna of southern Niger with comments on Termit Tin Toumma National Nature Reserve. Boletín de la Asociación Herpetológica Española, 24(1): 74-79

Gonçalves DV, Martínez-Freiría F, Crochet P-A, Geniez P, Carranza S, Brito JC (2018). The role of climatic cycles and trans-Saharan migration corridors in species diversification: biogeography of Psammophis schokari group in North Africa. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 118: 64-74

Gonçalves DV, Pereira P, Velo-Antón G, Harris DJ, Carranza S, Brito JC (2018). Assessing the role of aridity-induced vicariance and ecological divergence in species diversification in North-West Africa using Agama lizards. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 124: 363-380

Gonçalves DV, Brito JC (2019). Second Sahelian amphibian endemism suggested by phylogeography of Groove-crowned Bullfrog (Hoplobatrachus occipitalis) in western Sahel, and hints of polyploid species formation. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research in press, https://doi.org/10.1111/jzs.12321

Harris DJ, Vasconcelos R, Brito JC (2007). Genetic variation within African spiny-tailed lizards (Agamidae: Uromastyx) estimated using mitochondrial DNA sequences. Amphibia-Reptilia, 28: 1-6

Harris DJ, Carretero MA, Brito JC, Kaliontzopoulou A, Pinho C, Perera A, Vasconcelos R, Barata M, Barbosa D, Carvalho S, Fonseca MM, Pérez-Lanuza G, Rato C (2008). Data on the distribution of the terrestrial herpetofauna of Morocco: records from 2001-2006. Herpetological Bulletin, 103: 19-28

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Kapli P, Lymberakis P, Crochet P-A, Geniez P, Brito JC, Almutairi M, Ahmadzadeh F, Schmitz A, Wilms T, Pouyani NR, Poulakakis N (2015). Historical biogeography of the lacertid lizard Mesalina in North Africa and the Middle East. Journal of Biogeography, 42: 267-279

Kide NG, Dunz A, Agnèse J-F, Dilyte J, Pariselle A, Carneiro C, Correira E, Saoud Y, Yarba LO, Kone Y, Brito JC, Schliewen UK, Durand J-D (2016). Cichlids of the Banc d'Arguin National Park, Mauritania - Insight into the diversity of the Copotodon genus. Journal of Fish Biology, 88: 1369-1393

Koepfli K-P, Pollinger J, Godinho R, Robinson J, Lea A, Hendricks S, Schweizer RM, Thalmann O, Silva P, Fan Z, Yurchenko AA, Dobrynin P, Makunin A, Cahill JA, Shapiro B, Álvares F, Brito JC, Geffen E, Leonard JA, Helgen KM, Johnson WE, O’Brien SJ, Van Valkenburgh B, Wayne RK (2015). Genome-wide evidence reveals that African and Eurasian Golden Jackals are distinct species. Current Biology, 25: 2158-2165

Kopp GH, Ferreira da Silva MJ, Fischer J, Brito JC, Regnaut S, Roos C, Zinner D (2014). The influence of social systems on patterns of mitochondrial DNA variation in Baboons. International Journal of Primatology, 35: 210-225

Lado S, Alves PC, Islam MZ, Brito JC, Melo-Ferreira J (2019). The evolutionary history of the Cape hare (Lepus capensis sensu lato): insights for systematics and biogeography. Heredity, in press, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-019-0229-8

Leite JV, Álvares F, Velo-Antón G, Brito JC, Godinho R (2015). Differentiation of North African foxes and population genetic dynamics in the desert - insights into the evolutionary history of two sister taxa, Vulpes rueppellii and V. vulpes. Organisms Diversity and Evolution, 15: 731-745

Lima A, Pinho C, Larbes S, Carretero MA, Brito JC, Harris DJ (2009). Relationships of Podarcis wall lizards from Algeria based on mtDNA data. Amphibia-Reptilia, 30: 483-492

Lopes SC, Velo-Antón G, Pereira P, Lopes S, Godinho R, Crochet P-A, Brito JC (2015). Development and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite loci for spiny-footed lizards, Acanthodactylus scutellatus group (Reptilia, Lacertidae) from arid regions. BMC Research Notes, 8: 794

Metallinou M, Arnold EN, Crochet P-A, Geniez P, Brito JC, Lymberakis P, Baha El Din S, Sindaco R, Robinson M, Carranza S (2012). Conquering the Sahara and Arabian deserts: Systematics and biogeography of Stenodactylus geckos (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). BMC Evolutionary Biology, 12: 258

Metallinou M, Červenka J, Crochet P.-A., Kratochvíl L, Wilms T, Geniez P, Shobrak MY, Brito JC, Carranza S (2015). Species on the rocks: Systematics and biogeography of the rock-dwelling Ptyodactylus geckos (Squamata: Phyllodactylidae) in North Africa and Arabia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 85: 208-220

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Rato C, Brito JC, Carretero MA, Larbes S, Shacham B, Harris DJ (2007). Phylogeography and genetic diversity of Psammophis schokari (Serpentes) in North Africa based on mitochondrial DNA sequences. African Zoology, 42: 112-117

Silva TL, Godinho R, Castro D, Abáigar T, Brito JC, Alves PC (2015). Genetic identification of endangered North African ungulates using noninvasive sampling. Molecular Ecology Resources, 15: 652-661

Silva TL, Vale CG, Godinho R, Fellous A, Hingrat Y, Alves PC, Abáigar T, Brito JC (2017). Integrating genetic and ecological data for clarifying taxonomy and identifying ecotypes and evolutionary significant units in endangered North African Gazelles. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 122: 286-300

Sow AS, Martínez-Freiría F, Crochet P-A, Geniez P, Ineich I, Dieng H, Fahd S, Brito JC (2014). Atlas of the distribution of reptiles in the Parc National du Banc d’Arguin, Mauritania. Basic and Applied Herpetology, 28: 99-111

Sow AS, Martínez-Freiría F, Dieng H, Fahd S, Brito JC (2014). Biogeographical analysis of the Atlantic Sahara reptiles: environmental correlates of species distribution and vulnerability to climate change. Journal of Arid Environments, 109: 65-73

Sow AS, Gonçalves DV, Sousa FV, Martínez-Freiría F, Santarém F, Velo-Antón G, Dieng H, Campos JC, Diagne SK, Boratyński Z, Brito JC (2017). Atlas of the distribution of amphibians and reptiles in the Diawling National Park, Mauritania. Basic and Applied Herpetology, 31: 101-116

Tamar K, Carranza S, Sindaco R, Moravec J, Trape JF, Meiri S (2016). Out of Africa: Phylogeny and biogeography of the widespread genus Acanthodactylus (Reptilia: Lacertidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 103: 6-18

Tamar K, Geniez P, Brito JC, Crochet P-A (2017). Systematic revision of Acanthodactylus busacki (Squamata: Lacertidae) with a description of a new species from Morocco. Zootaxa, 4276(3): 357-386

Trape S, Mediannikov O, Trape J-F (2012). When colour patterns reflect phylogeography: New species of Dasypeltis (Serpentes: Colubridae: Boigini) from West Africa. Comptes Rendus Biologies, 335: 488-501

Vale CG, Tarroso P, Campos JC, Gonçalves DV, Brito JC (2012). Distribution, suitable areas and conservation status of the Boulenger’ agama (Agama boulengeri, Lataste 1886). Amphibia-Reptilia, 33: 526-532

Vale CG, Álvares F, Brito JC (2012). Distribution, suitable areas and conservation status of the Felou gundi (Felovia vae Lataste 1886). Mammalia, 76: 201-207

Vale CG, Tarroso P, Brito JC (2014). Predicting species distribution at range margins: testing the effects of study area extent and resolution, and threshold selection in the Sahara-Sahel transition zone. Diversity and Distributions, 20: 20-33

Vale CG, Pimm SL, Brito JC (2015). Overlooked mountain rock pools in deserts are critical local hotspots of biodiversity. PLoS One, 10(2): e0118367

Vale CG, Ferreira da Silva MJ, Campos JC, Torres J, Brito JC (2015). Applying species distribution modelling to the conservation of an ecologically plastic species (Papio papio) across biogeographic regions in West Africa. Journal for Nature Conservation, 27: 26-36

Vale CG, Campos JC, Silva TL, Gonçalves DV, Sow AS, Martínez-Freiría F, Boratyński Z, Brito JC (2016). Biogeography and conservation of mammals from the West Sahara-Sahel: an application of ecological niche-based models and GIS. Hystrix-Italian Journal of Mammology, doi:10.4404/hystrix-27.1-11659

Vasconcelos R, Rocha S, Brito JC, Carranza S, Harris DJ (2009). First report of introduced African Rainbow Lizard Agama agama (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Cape Verde Islands. Herpetozoa, 21(3-4): 183-186

Vasconcelos R, Froufe E, Brito JC, Carranza S, Harris DJ (2010). Phylogeography of Amietophrynus regularis based on mitochondrial DNA sequences: inferences regarding the Cape Verde population and biogeographical patterns. African Zoology, 45: 291-298

Velo-Antón G, Godinho R, Campos JC, Brito JC (2014). Should I stay or should I go? Dispersal and population structure in small, isolated desert populations of West African crocodiles. PLoS One, 9(4): e94626

Velo-Antón G, Martínez-Freiría F, Pereira P, Crochet P-A, Brito JC (2018). Living on the edge: ecological and genetic connectivity of the Spiny-footed lizard, Acanthodactylus aureus, confirms the Atlantic Sahara desert as biogeographic corridor and centre of lineage diversification. Journal of Biogeography, 45: 1031-1042

Velo-Antón G, Boratyński Z, Ferreira CM, Lima VO, Alves PC, Brito JC (2019). Intra-specific genetic diversity and distribution of North African hedgehogs (Mammalia: Erinaceidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 127: 156-163

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http://ipt.gbif.pt/ipt/logo.do?r=biodeserts
 

Project

• Project

Title

DESERTFLOW – METALAND

Personnel

Individual Name

Given Name

José Carlos

Surname

Brito

User ID

0000-0001-5444-8132

Role

PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Abstract
Funding

FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia

NGS - National Geographic Society

Study Area Description

Descriptor

North and West Africa

 
 

Methods

• Method

Method Step

Description

Visual encounter surveys; species identification confirmed by molecular markers

Sampling

Study Extent

Most data comes from the deserts and arid regions of North and West Africa, especially from the Sahara and Sahel ecoregions

Sampling Description

Observations collected mostly using random sampling procedures

qualityControl

Description

All data has been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. In a large portions of the observations, tissue samples were collected and species identifications were confirmed by the use of molecular markers (barcoding)