Tropidurus jaguaribanus Passos, Lima & Borges-Nojosa 2011

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

Tropidurus jaguaribanus Passos, Lima & Borges-Nojosa 2011

Figs 12.3 and 20

Type locality.

São João do Jaguaribe, state of Ceará, Brazil.

Distribution.

Caatinga endemic species. It is recorded only in the states of Ceará and Piauí. It shows restricted distribution in the Caatinga and with annual mean temperature 20 to 28°C along three ecoregions (Table 1 ; Appendix S3). Distributed in low to medium elevation areas (51-582 m a.s.l.), with annual mean temperature 25 to 28°C, and average annual rainfall between 630 and 822 mm.

Ecological notes.

Terrestrial and diurnal. It inhabits regions with fractured granitic rocky outcrops, surrounded by hypoxerophytic caatinga in the state of Ceará ( Passos et al. 2011a). Diet based mainly on arthropods, being Coleoptera and Formicidae the most representative items ( Alcantara et al. 2018). Oviparous, the female usually lays two eggs at a time ( Passos et al. 2013c).

Figures

Figure 12. Lizards recorded in the Caatinga region. 12.1 Tropidurus helenae; 12.2 Tropidurus hispidus; 12.3 Tropidurus jaguaribanus; 12.4 Tropidurus montanus; 12.5 Tropidurus mucujensis; 12.6 Tropidurus oreadicus; 12.7 Tropidurus pinima and 12.8 Tropidurus semitaeniatus. Photograph credits: Daniel Mesquita (12.1, 12.6, 12.8), Adrian Garda (12.2), Daniel Passos (12.3, 12.4, 12.7), Marco A. Freitas (12.5).