Anolis brasiliensis Vanzolini & Williams, 1970

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Anolis brasiliensis Vanzolini & Williams, 1970

Type-locality. Barra do Tapirapés, Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Pertinent taxonomic references. Vanzolini & Williams (1970), Cunha et al. (1985), Savage & Guyer (1991), Ávila-Pires (1995), D’Angiolella et al. (2011), Nicholson et al. (2012).

Distribution and habitat. Anolis brasiliensis is typical from open areas of central Brazil ( Fig. 1 ), and it is known from the states of Pará, Tocantins, Maranhão, Piauí, Ceará, Mato Grosso, Goiás, Minas Gerais, São Paulo, and in the Distrito Federal. In the Brazilian Amazonia it occurs on open vegetation enclaves at southern Pará and northern Mato Grosso states. The occurrence in Santa Cruz do Arari, Marajó Island, is considered doubtful (specimen CHUNB 08803). The Emílio Goeldi Museum has a great collection from the Marajó Island, and for decades has been inventorying the region and do not found the species. The other reason is the large geographic distance to the closest known record in the Amazonian border with Cerrado. Anolis brasiliensis is predominantly terrestrial and diurnal, inhabits gallery forest, igapó (seasonally flooded forest), and savanna areas nearby forests, where it is mainly found on the leaf litter and on tree trunks (rarely more than one meter above ground—Vanzolini & Williams 1970; Vitt et al. 2008b).

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FIGURE 1. Distribution of examined material of Anolis auratus, A. bombiceps and A. brasiliensis.