Placosoma limaverdorum Borges-Nojosa, Caramaschi & Rodrigues, 2016

Fig. 15

Type locality.

Olho d’Água dos Tangarás farm, Maciço de Baturité, municipality of Pacoti, state of Ceará, Brazil.

Distribution.

Caatinga endemic species. It is recorded only in the state of Ceará . It shows restricted distribution in the Caatinga and occurs along one ecoregion (Table 1; Appendix S3). Distributed in low to high elevation areas (142-839 m a.s.l.), with annual mean temperature 21 to 26°C, and average annual rainfall between 1,089 and 1,628 mm.

Ecological notes.

Fossorial and diurnal (Borges-Nojosa et al. 2016). Found mainly in areas of brejos nordestinos (Borges-Nojosa et al. 2016). Most specimens were found in litter from primary and secondary vegetation, or in banana plantations, but it can also be found in tree trunks (Lima 2005; Borges-Nojosa et al. 2016). Diet based mainly on arthropods, no information about the preferred items on the diet of this species is known (Marques et al. 2009). Oviparous, no detailed data is known about the number of eggs laid by the species, but it could be similar to other Placosoma species (Uzzell 1959).