Tropidurus jaguaribanus Passos, Lima & Borges-Nojosa 2011
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Tropidurus jaguaribanus Passos, Lima & Borges-Nojosa 2011
Figs 12.3 and 20 View Figure 12
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 View 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).
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