Colobosauroides carvalhoi Soares & Caramaschi, 1998

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

Colobosauroides carvalhoi Soares & Caramaschi, 1998

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Type locality.

Barreiras, state of Bahia, Brazil.

Distribution.

Caatinga endemic species. It is registered in the states of Bahia, Ceará and Piauí. It is widespread in the Caatinga and occurs along three ecoregions (Table 1 ; Appendix S3). Distributed in low to high elevation areas (259-724 m a.s.l.), with annual mean temperature 22 to 27°C, and average annual rainfall between 702 and 1,402 mm.

Ecological notes.

Fossorial and diurnal ( Soares and Caramaschi 1998). It can be found in savannah areas (forested hillside areas where moisture is retained), surrounded by caatinga areas and in a Cerrado-Caatinga transition areas ( Soares and Caramaschi 1998; Magalhães-Júnior et al. 2017). Diet based mainly on arthropods, being Isoptera , Orthoptera and Blattaria the most representative items ( Mesquita et al. 2006; Cavalcanti et al. in press). Oviparous, no detailed data is known about the number of eggs laid by the species, but it could be similar to other Colobosauroides ( Silva Neta et al. 2019).

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).