Coleodactylus meridionalis (Boulenger, 1888)
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Coleodactylus meridionalis (Boulenger, 1888)
Figs 9.6 and 18 View Figure 9
Type locality.
Igarassu, state of Pernambuco, Brazil.
Distribution.
In the Caatinga it is registered in the states of Alagoas, Bahia, Ceará, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte, and Sergipe. It is widespread in the Caatinga and occurs along all ecoregions (Table 1 View Table 1 ; Appendix S3). Distributed in low to high elevation areas (5-934 m a.s.l.), with annual mean temperature 21 to 28°C, and average annual rainfall between 532 and 660 mm.
Ecological notes.
Terrestrial and diurnal. It is found in leaf litter of the arboreal Caatinga, with moist soil ( Carvalho et al. 2005; Capistrano and Freire 2008; da Silva et al. 2015). Diet based mainly on arthropods, being Orthoptera , Isopoda and Araneae the most representative items ( Dias et al. 2003; da Silva et al. 2015). Oviparous, the female usually lays one egg at a time (Vanzolini et al. 1980; Mesquita and Colli 2010).
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