MESOAMERICAN SALAMANDERS (AMPHIBIA: CAUDATA) AS A CONSERVATION FOCAL GROUP
Eli García-Padilla1, Dominic L. DeSantis2, Arturo Rocha3, Vicente Mata-Silva4, Jerry D. Johnson5, Lydia Allison Fucsko6, David Lazcano7, and Larry David Wilson8
Elí García-Padilla to “Biodiversidad Mesoamericana, Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca 68023, Mexico and e-mail address to eligarciapadilla86@gmail.com .2 Department of Biological & Environmental Sciences, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, Georgia 31061, USA. E-mail: dominic. desantis@gcsu.edu 3 Department of Biological Sciences, El Paso Community College, El Paso, Texas 79927, USA. E-mail: turyrocha@gmail.com 4,5 Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968-0500, USA. E-mails: vmata@utep.edu, jjohnson@utep.edu 6 Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. E-mail: lydiafucsko@gmail.com 7 Laboratorio de Herpetología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Apartado Postal 157, San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León, C.P. 66450, México. E-mail: imantodes52@hotmail.com 8 Centro Zamorano de Biodiversidad, Escuela Agrícola Panamericana Zamorano, Departamento de Francisco Morazán, HONDURAS; 1350 Pelican Court, Homestead, Florida 33035, USA. E-mail: bufodoc@aol.com 1
Biología y Sociedad nº 7, primer semestre 2021
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Conservation is not merely a q uestion of morality, but a question of our own survival”. His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2004)
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