Celsa Señaris

Celsa is expirienced biodiversity scientist and herpetologist  She has more than 20 years of research and administrative expireince, previously working as a director of the Natural History Museum La Salle in Caracas. Celsa is one of the leading experts in  Neotropical amphibian and reptilian biodiversity  and drivers of the global decline of  Amphibia. In our lab Celsa is responsible  for research project managment as well continuning her own research on Neotropical biodiversity.

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Selected publications

• Señaris, C., & Sunyer, J. (2024). First record of Plectrohyla guatemalensisBrocchi, 1877 (Anura, Hylidae) from Nicaragua. Check List, 20(3), 721.

• Luedtke, J. A., Chanson, J., Neam, K., Hobin, L., Maciel, A. O., Catenazzi, A., ...Celsa Señaris [28/119]...& Stuart, S. N. (2023). Ongoing declines for the world’s amphibians in the face of emerging threats. Nature, 622(7982), 308-314.

• Lampo, M., Señaris, C., González, K., & Ballestas, O. (2023). Smaller size of harlequin toads from populations long exposed to the fungal disease chytridiomycosis. Biotropica, 55(3), 699-705.

• Lötters, S., Plewnia, A., Catenazzi, A., Neam, K., Acosta-Galvis, A. R., Alarcon Vela, Y., ..... Celsa Señaris [82/88]... & La Marca, E. (2023). Ongoing harlequin toad declines suggest the amphibian extinction crisis is still an emergency. Communications Earth & Environment, 4(1), 412.

• Señaris, C., & Rojas-Runjaic, F. J. (2020). Amphibians and reptiles of Venezuelan Guayana: diversity, biogeography and conservation. Neotropical Diversification: Patterns and Processes, 571-633.

• Señaris, J. C., Ayarzaguena, J., & Gorzula, S. (1994). Los sapos de la familia Bufonidae (Amphibia, Anura) de las tierras altas de la Guayana venezolana: descripción de un nuevo genero y tres especies. Asociación Amigos de Doñana.