Psilops mucugensis Rodrigues, Recoder, Teixeira Jr., Roscito, Guerrero, Nunes, Freitas, Fernandes, Bocchiglieri, Dal Vechio, Leite, Nogueira, Damasceno, Pellegrino, Argolo & Amaro, 2017
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Psilops mucugensis Rodrigues, Recoder, Teixeira Jr., Roscito, Guerrero, Nunes, Freitas, Fernandes, Bocchiglieri, Dal Vechio, Leite, Nogueira, Damasceno, Pellegrino, Argolo & Amaro, 2017 |
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Figs 6.5 and 16 View Figure 6
Type locality.
Três Irmãos Farm, municipality of Mu-cugê, Serra do Espinhaço (Diamantina Plateau), state of Bahia, Brazil.
Distribution.
Caatinga endemic species. It is recorded only in the state of Bahia. It shows restricted distribution in the Caatinga and occurs along one ecoregion (Table 1 View Table 1 ; Appendix S3). Distributed in medium to high elevation areas (587-1,085 m a.s.l.), with annual mean temperature 20 to 24°C, and average annual rainfall between 662 and 917 mm.
Ecological notes.
Fossorial and diurnal ( Rodrigues 1991b). It has a strict association with sandy soils. It was recorded in open areas with a sandy quartzite soil in the municipality of Miguel Calmon, in open semideciduous forest in the municiplaty of Morro do Chapéu, in a plateau covered by lower semideciduous vegetation in Mucugê, and in rupestrian fields in Palmeiras ( Magalhães et al. 2015; Rodrigues et al. 2017). Diet based mainly on arthropods, no information about the preferred items on the diet of this species is known, but it could be similar to other Psilops ( Costa 2015). Oviparous, no detailed data is known about the number of eggs laid by the species, but it could be similar to other Gymnophthalmidae ( Mesquita and Colli 2010; Dal Vechio et al. 2014; Ramiro et al. 2017).
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