Colobosaura modesta (Reinhardt & Luetken , 1862)

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

Colobosaura modesta (Reinhardt & Luetken, 1862)

Figs 5.3 and 15

Type locality.

Morro da Garça, municipality of Curvelo, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Distribution.

In the Caatinga it is registered in the states of Bahia, Ceará and Piauí. It is widespread in the Caatinga and occurs along four ecoregions (Table 1 ; Appendix S3). Distributed in low to high elevation areas (29-919 m a.s.l.), with annual mean temperature 21 to 27°C, and average annual rainfall between 702 and 1,413 mm.

Ecological notes.

Fossorial and diurnal ( Benozzati and Rodrigues 2003; Mesquita et al. 2006). It inhabits dry forest and savannah enclaves in the Caatinga ( Freire et al. 2012). Diet based mainly on arthropods, being Araneae , Orthoptera and Blattaria the most representative items ( Mesquita et al. 2006; Torelli et al. 2017). Oviparous, the female usually lays two eggs at a time ( Mesquita and Colli 2010).

Figures

Figure 5. Lizards recorded in the Caatinga region. 5.1 Calyptommatus sinebrachiatus; 5.2 Cercosaura olivacea; 5.3 Colobosaura modesta; 5.4 Colobosauroides carvalhoi; 5.5 Colobosauroides cearensis; 5.6 Dryadosaura nordestina; 5.7 Heterodactylus septentrionalis and 5.8 Leposoma baturitensis. Photograph credits: Ricardo Marques (5.1), Mauro Teixeira (5.4), Daniel Mesquita (5.3), Kassio Araujo (5.5), Marco A. Freitas (5.7), Adrian Garda (5.2, 5.6).