Catalogue of distribution of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Brazilian Amazonia. I. Dactyloidae, Hoplocercidae, Iguanidae, Leiosauridae, Polychrotidae, Tropiduridae
Author
Ribeiro-Júnior, Marco A.
text
Zootaxa
2015
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3983.1.1
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Anolis fuscoauratus
D’Orbigny, 1837
Type-locality.
Chile
, corrected by D’Orbigny (1847) to Rio Mamoré, between Loreto and the confluence of Rio Sara, Moxos province,
Bolivia
.
Pertinent taxonomic references.
D’Orbigny (1837, 1847),
Peters (1863)
,
Boulenger (1885)
,
Thominot (1887)
,
Roux (1929)
,
Shreve (1947)
,
Cunha
(1961)
,
Peters & Donoso-Barros (1970)
,
Hoogmoed (1973)
,
Duellman (1978)
,
Cunha
et al.
(1985)
,
Savage & Guyer (1989)
,
Ávila-Pires (1995)
,
Frost
et al.
(2001a)
,
Glor
et al
. (2001)
,
Poe (2004)
,
Nicholson
et al.
(2012)
.
FIGURE 3.
Distribution of examined material of
Anolis fuscoauratus
.
Distribution and habitat.
Anolis fuscoauratus
is widespread in the Amazonia and central-northern portion of the Atlantic Forest. It occurs in southern
Panama
(Central
America
),
Brazil
,
French Guiana
,
Suriname
,
Guyana
,
Venezuela
,
Colombia
,
Ecuador
,
Peru
, and
Bolivia
(South America—Fig. 3). In
Brazil
it is known from Amapá, Pará, Maranhão, Amazonas, Roraima, Acre, Rondônia, Mato Grosso (Amazonian region), Ceará, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe, Bahia, Minas Gerais, and Espírito Santo (Atlantic Forest).
Anolis fuscoauratus
is arboreal and diurnal. In Amazonia it inhabits primary and secondary terra firme forests, várzea and igapó, where it is found on the vegetation (tree trunks, fallen trunks, lianas and shrubs) between 1–3 meters above ground, agilely moving across a variety of heights, and occasionally on the ground (
Hoogmoed 1973
;
Duellman 1978
;
Cunha
et al
. 1985
;
Martins 1991
;
Ávila-Pires 1995
;
Vitt
et al.
2003b
;
Schlüter
et al
. 2004
;
Ribeiro-Júnior
et al.
2006
;
Vitt
et al
. 2008a
).