Lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Caatinga, northeastern Brazil: Detailed and updated overview
Author
Uchoa, Lucas Rafael
Centro de Estudos Superiores de Caxias, Universidade Estadual do Maranhao, Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Biodiversidade, Ambiente e Saude, Praca Duque de Caxias, 65604 - 380, Caxias, MA, Brazil
Author
Delfim, Fagner Ribeiro
Departamento de Sistematica e Ecologia, Centro de Ciencias Exatas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal da Paraiba, 58059 - 800, Joao Pessoa, PB, Brazil
Author
Mesquita, Daniel Oliveira
Departamento de Sistematica e Ecologia, Centro de Ciencias Exatas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal da Paraiba, 58059 - 800, Joao Pessoa, PB, Brazil
Author
Colli, Guarino Rinaldi
Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade de Brasilia, 70910 - 900, Brasilia, DF, Brazil
Author
Garda, Adrian Antonio
Departamento de Botanica e Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 59078 - 900, Natal, RN, Brazil
Author
Guedes, Thais B.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3318-7193
Departamento de Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 13083 - 862, Campinas, SP, Brazil & University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Center, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Box 461, SE- 405 30, Goeteborg, Sweden
thaisbguedes@yahoo.com.br
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Vertebrate Zoology
2022
2022-08-12
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599
659
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/vz.72.e78828
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/vz.72.e78828
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Calyptommatus frontalis Recoder, Marques-Souza, Silva-Soares, Ramiro, Castro & Rodrigues, 2022
Figs 4.6 and 14
Type locality.
Lameirao
, Buritirama, state of Bahia, Brazil.
Distribution.
Caatinga endemic species. It is recorded only in the state of Bahia. It shows restricted distribution in the Caatinga and occurs along one ecoregion (Table
1
; Appendix S3). Distributed in medium elevation areas (503-600 m a.s.l.), with annual mean temperature 24°C, and average annual rainfall between 942 and 953 mm.
Ecological notes.
Fossorial and nocturnal (
Recoder et al. 2022
). Recorded to occur in a sandstone plateau, characterized by white sandy soils, on the east side of Serra do Estreito. The vegetation is a short xeromorphic caatinga vegetation with sparse trees, shrubs, cacti and clumps of bromeliads with scattered spaces of bare sand. Individuals were found buried in sand under leaf litter in shaded microhabitats (
Recoder et al. 2022
). Diet based mainly on arthropods, no information about the preferred items on the diet of this species is known. Oviparous, no detailed data is known about the number of eggs laid by the species, but it could be similar to other
Calyptommatus
species (
Rodrigues 1991a
).