Norops brasiliensis (Vanzolini & Williams, 1970)

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

Norops brasiliensis (Vanzolini & Williams, 1970)

Figs 3.1 and 13

Type locality.

Barra do Tapirapés, state of Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Distribution.

In the Caatinga it is registered in the states of Ceará and Piauí. It shows restricted distribution in the Caatinga and occurs along two ecoregions (Table 1 ; Appendix S3). It occurs in low to high elevation areas (181-919 m a.s.l.), with annual mean temperature 21 to 27°C, and average annual rainfall between 673 and 1,123 mm.

Ecological notes.

Semiarboreal and diurnal. Found in seasonally dry forests and gallery forests and adjacent habitats, where it is mainly found in leaf litter and tree trunks ( Vanzolini and Williams 1970; Mesquita et al. 2015). Diet based mainly on arthropods, being Araneae , Orthoptera and Formicidae the most representative items ( Mesquita et al. 2015). Oviparous, the females lay one egg at a time ( Mesquita et al. 2015).

Figures

Figure 3. Lizards recorded in the Caatinga region. 3.1 Norops brasiliensis; 3.2 Norops fuscoauratus; 3.3 Diploglossus lessonae; 3.4 Ophiodes striatus; 3.5 Hemidactylus agrius; 3.6 Hemidactylus brasilianus; 3.7 Hemidactylus mabouia; and 3.8 Lygodactylus klugei. Photograph credits: Mauro Teixeira (3.1), Marco A. Freitas (3.2), Daniel Mesquita (3.5, 3.7), Adrian Garda (3.3, 3.4, 3.6, 3.8)