Stenocercus squarrosus Nogueira & Rodrigues, 2006

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

Stenocercus squarrosus Nogueira & Rodrigues, 2006

Figs 11.4 and 19

Type locality.

Chapada dos Gerais, a sandstone plateau in Parque Nacional Serra das Confusões, state of Piauí, Brazil.

Distribution.

In the Caatinga it is registered in the states of Ceará and Piauí. It shows restricted distribution in the Caatinga and with annual mean temperature 20 to 28°C along two ecoregions (Table 1 ; Appendix S3). Distributed in low to high elevation areas (259-919 m a.s.l.), with annual mean temperature 21 to 27°C, and annual average annual rainfall between 702 and 1,074 mm.

Ecological notes.

Terrestrial and diurnal. This species is recorded in isolated elevated plateaus Ceará (Floresta Nacional do Araripe- Apodi ) with adjacent in low elevation areas close to the Cerrado in the state of Piauí ( Ribeiro et al. 2009; Delfim 2012; Ribeiro et al. 2012). Diet based mainly on arthropods, being Araneae , Formidae , Coleoptera and Pseudoescorpiones the most representative items (Cavalcanti et al. unpublished data). Oviparous, no detailed data is known about the number of eggs laid by the species, but it could be similar to other Stenocercus ( Rodrigues et al. 1989; Torres-Carvajal 2007).

Figures

Figure 11. Lizards recorded in the Caatinga region. 11.1 Tupinambis teguixin; 11.2 Eurolophosaurus amathites; 11.3 Eurolophosaurus divaricatus; 11.4 Stenocercus squarrosus; 11.5 Strobilurus torquatus; 11.6 Tropidurus cocorobensis; 11.7 Tropidurus erythrocephalus, and 11.8 Tropidurus etheridgei. Photograph credits: Daniel Mesquita (11.1, 11.4), Marco A. Freitas (11.2, 11.3, 11.5, 11.7, 11.8), Adrian Garda (11.6).