Ameiva ameiva (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Ameiva ameiva (Linnaeus, 1758) |
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Ameiva ameiva (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL
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Type locality.
America, restricted by Hoogmoed (1973) to the confluence of the Cottica River and the Perica Creek, Suriname.
Distribution.
In the Caatinga it is registered in the states of Alagoas, Bahia, Ceará, Minas Gerais, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte, and Sergipe. It is widespread in the Caatinga and occurs along all ecoregions (Table 1 View Table 1 ; Appendix S3). Distributed in low to high elevation areas (5-1,105 m a.s.l.), with annual mean temperature 20 to 28°C, and average annual rainfall between 374 and 1,573 mm.
Ecological notes.
Terrestrial and diurnal (Vanzolini et al. 1980). It is widely distributed in open areas in South America (Vanzolini et al. 1980). Diet based mainly on arthropods, being Isoptera , insect larvae and Coleoptera the most representative items ( Vitt and Colli 1994). Oviparous, the female usually lays 1-9 eggs at a time ( Vitt 1992).
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