Newportia (Newportia) spelaea Azara & Ferreira, 2014

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Newportia (Newportia) spelaea Azara & Ferreira, 2014

Published records.

( Ázara and Ferreira 2014b).

Material examined.

None.

Taxonomic notes.

The small body size suggests that the specimen was a juvenile. Thus, more collections are necessary to confirm diagnostic characters and cave category.

Distribution.

Newportia spelaea is known only from a single specimen from Toca do Gonçalo, a limestone cave in the semi-arid, northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia. The species is classified as troglobitic, but few collections were conducted outside the cave to confirm this categorization.

Habitat.

Cave (humid substrate).

Conservation.

Toca do Gonçalo has no legal protection from Brazilian environmental agencies and is under severe threat by local people for the water resources within. Newportia spelaea was not evaluated in the Red List of Brazilian Threatened Fauna ( MMA 2016).