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

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/vz.72.e78828

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scientific name

Stenocercus squarrosus Nogueira & Rodrigues, 2006
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Stenocercus squarrosus Nogueira & Rodrigues, 2006 View in CoL

Figs 11.4 and 19 View Figure 11

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 View 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 unpublished data).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).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Tropiduridae

Genus

Stenocercus