Acratosaura spinosa Rodrigues, Cassimiro, Freitas & Silva, 2009

Uchoa, Lucas Rafael, Delfim, Fagner Ribeiro, Mesquita, Daniel Oliveira, Colli, Guarino Rinaldi, Garda, Adrian Antonio & Guedes, Thais B., 2022, Lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Caatinga, northeastern Brazil: Detailed and updated overview, Vertebrate Zoology 72, pp. 599-659 : 599

Acratosaura spinosa Rodrigues, Cassimiro, Freitas & Silva, 2009

Figs 4.2 and 14

Type locality.

Caraíbas Farm, municipality of Mucugê, Serra do Sincorá, Serra do Espinhaço, 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 high elevation areas (1,025-1,176 m a.s.l.), with annual mean temperature 19 to 20°C, and average annual rainfall between 917 and 996 mm.

Ecological notes.

Fossorial and diurnal ( Rodrigues et al. 2009a). It was observed under rocks and on a road in a disturbed area of rupestrian fields of the Diamantina Plateau ( Rodrigues et al. 2009a). 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 others of the Iphisiini tribe ( Mesquita and Colli 2010; Costa 2015).

Figures

Figure 4. Lizards recorded in the Caatinga region. 4.1 Acratosaura mentalis; 4.2 Acratosaura spinosa; 4.3 Anotosaura collaris; 4.4 Anotosaura vanzolinia; 4.5 Calyptommatus confusionibus; 4.6 Calyptommatus frontalis; 4.7 Calyptommatus leiolepis; and 4.8 Calyptommatus nicterus. Photograph credits: Marco A. Freitas (4.2, 4.7, 4.8), Miguel T. Rodrigues (4.6), Mauro Teixeira (4.3), Adrian Garda (4.1, 4.4, 4.5).